Product Description

Teach yourself SQL Server 2008—one step at a time. Get the practical guidance you need to build database solutions that solve real-world business problems. Learn to integrate SQL Server data in your applications, write queries, develop reports, and employ powerful business intelligence systems. Discover how to: • Install and work with core components and tools • Create tables and index structures • Manipulate and retrieve data • Secure, manage, back up, and recover databases • Apply tuning plus optimization techniques to generate high-performing database applications • Optimize availability through clustering, database mirroring, and log shipping • Tap business intelligence tools—Reporting, Analysis, and Integration Services CD features: • Practice exercises and code samples • Fully searchable eBook  

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54090 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

Customer Reviews

Great way to get into SQL 2008!
I needed to get some pretty simple work done in SQL (at least I thought so) and having very little experience with SQL I was looking for a book that could go from nothing to where I needed to be.
Other books I had tried before this one either expected a level of knowledge I did not have or were not easy to navigate to just the portions I needed.
I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an easy to follow reference covering all aspects of SQL to some level and imagine even someone with experience of SQL could take something away from it.

The only thing preventing me giving this 5 stars is not having read (or found) and other comparable 'getting started' type books on SQL 2008.