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Beginning SQL Server 2008 for Developers: From Novice to Professional View Larger Image | Robin Dewson
Apress, Paperback, Published July 2008, 496 pages, ISBN 1590599586 | List Price: $49.99
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SQL Server 2008 is a first–rate database management system. It offers
more capability than any previous release of SQL Server. More than just a classic
relational database management system, SQL Server 2008 includes exciting and
powerful features that make it useful for everything from large corporate data
warehouses to ad hoc departmental databases. You’ll find enhanced support
for XML, new support for spatial data, transparent data encryption, a policy–based
management system, and more.
Author and developer Robin Dewson will show you the way from beginner to SQL
Server 2008 professional. Learn to install SQL Server 2008 and navigate around
Management Studio before getting right to the heart of mastering fundamental
SQL Server 2008 tasks: creating tables, storing data, securing data, and retrieving
it again. Dewson ensures you’ll be fully prepared to use all the basics
and create a solid foundation for your own projects.
Don’t forget about backups! Your database will house important data, so
backing up is essential to protect yourself from inevitable hardware failure.
Dewson walks you through SQL Server 2008’s easy–to–use backup
and recovery feature set, giving you the grounding that you need in order to
set up a reliable plan for recovery in your own environment.
Learn to use Transact–SQL, a full–blown procedural language that
is built right into the database system. Transact–SQL is the key to unlocking
everything that SQL Server 2008 has to offer. Using Transact–SQL, you can
write centrally encapsulated business logic through the use of stored procedures,
automatically trigger processing through the use of triggers, and manipulate
data within the server without having to move data back and forth across the
network.
Finally, you’ll learn a bit about SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services,
a powerful tool that allows enterprise reporting. Reporting Services enables
you to develop and serve reports across your organization and even to business
partners outside your company. Reporting Services also gives end users the ability
to create their own reports, helping them transform business data into valuable,
usable information to guide their day–to–day decisions.
What you’ll learn
• Install and manage SQL Server on your system.
• Create and secure tables.
• Store and query data; use indexes to improve query performance.
• “Sleep when the wind blows,” because you have a solid backup and
recovery process.
• Run procedural code inside your database in the form of Transact–SQL
procedures and triggers.
• Serve up business reports to in–house users and outside business partners
via SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.
Who is this book for?
Developers new to SQL Server 2008. If you are just beginning to develop software
using SQL Server 2008, or if you are planning to do so in the near future, this
book will set you on the road to success.
About the Apress Beginning Series
The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information
you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you
a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly
designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start
your journey by seeing what you need to knowbut without needless theory and
filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world
projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or
a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it
is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!
About the Author
Robin Dewson has been hooked on programming ever since he bought his first
computer, a Sinclair ZX80, in 1980. He has been working with SQL Server since
version 6.5 and Visual Basic since version 5. Robin is a consultant mainly in
the city of London, where he has been for nearly eight years. He also has been
developing a rugby–related website as well as maintaining his own site
at www.fat-belly.com.
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