Expert SQL Server 2008 Development - Machanic, Adam

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Résumé :
Expert SQL Server 2008 Development is aimed at SQL Server developers ready to move beyond Books Online. Author and experienced developer Alastair Aitchison shows you how to think about SQL Server development as if it were any other type of development. Yo?ll learn to manage testing in SQL Server and to properly deal with errors and exceptions. The book also covers critical, database-centric topics such as managing concurrency and securing your data and code through proper privileges and authorization. Alastair places focus on sound development and architectural practices that will help you become a better developer, capable of designing high-performance, robust, maintainable database applications. He shows you how to apply notable features in SQL Server such as encryption and support for hierarchical data. If developing for SQL Server is what puts the bread on your table, you can do no better than to read this book and to assimilate the expert-level practices that it provides. Promotes expert-level practices Leads to high performance, scalable code Improves productivity, getting you home in time for dinner

Biographie:
Alastair Aitchison has more than eight years of experience as a management information consultant, specializing in the design and deployment of online reporting systems. For the last three years, he has been employed as a reporting and analysis manager at Aviva, the world's fifth largest insurance group. In this role, he has championed the use of spatial data in corporate applications including the geographic analysis of risk patterns, plotting the success of regional marketing campaigns, and understanding the impact of major weather incidents. Alastair is a Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor and has delivered numerous training courses to individuals and small groups on a range of software packages.

Sommaire:
Software Development Methodologies for the Database World.- Best Practices for Database Programming.- Testing Database Routines.- Errors and Exceptions.- Privilege and Authorization.- Encryption.- SQLCLR: Architecture and Design Considerations.- Dynamic T-SQL.- Designing Systems for Application Concurrency.- Working with Spatial Data.- Working with Temporal Data.- Trees, Hierarchies, and Graphs.