Inside Sql Server 2000 - 2 Cd-Rom Included - Kalen Delaney

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Résumé :
Master the inner workings of today's premier relational database management system with this official guide to the SQL Server 2000 engine. Written by a renowned columnist in partnership with the product development team, this is the must-read book for anyone who needs to know how SQL Server internal structures affect application development and functionality. Its extensive details about the latest product enhancements and updated installation, administration, and development advice can help you create high-performance data-warehousing, transaction-processing, and decision-support applications that will scale up for any challenge. Topics covered include :
- Evolution, architecture, and toolset : The history of SQL Server since 1989, an architectural overview, and a comprehensive tour of its tools and features
- Planning and deployment : Everything you need to know about installation and deployment issues such as multiple instances, Super Sockets, and upgrades
- Databases, files, tables, and data : How to create, modify, back up, and restore databases, files, and tables, and how tà query and modify data
- Built-In development tools : Using Query Analyzer and SQL Server Profiler to simplify administration and optimize performance; programming with Transact-SQL; and extending functionality with batches, transactions, stored procedures, and triggers
- Query-processing techniques : Multiple indexes, hash and merge joins, and data-manipulation capabilities such as parallel queries
- Internal architecture : Low-level details of data and index-page structures, locking mechanisms, optimization, and plan caching
- Integration with other tools : Usage with Microsoft Office 2000, Visual Studio development system, and the BackOffice server family.

Biographie:
Kalen Delaney has worked extensively with Microsoft SQL Server since 1987 and is recognized worldwide for her training seminars. A columnist with SQL Server magazine and a frequent contributor to other computing journals, she develops training materials for Microsoft and for her own training and consulting business. She lives in western Washington.

Sommaire:

• OVERVIEW
• The Evolution of Microsoft SQL Server: 1989 to 2000
• A Tour of SQL Server

• SQL Server Architecture

• Planning for and Installing SQL Server
• Databases and Database Files
• Tables
• Querying Data
• Indexes
• Modifying Data
• Programming with Transact-SQL
• Batches, Stored Procedures, and Functions
• Transactions and Triggers
• Special Transact-SQL Operations: Working with Cursors and Large Objects

• Locking
• The Query Processor
• Query Tuning
• Configuration and Performance Monitoring