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While there are plenty of screen shots showing graphical SQL Server tools, the focus of this book is clearly on learning real command-line Transact-SQL (T-SQL). The authors provide a patient and very thorough tour of T-SQL with full coverage of both basic and advanced features. You'll learn how to define new tables, manage users in groups, as well as perform all kinds of queries. Stand-out material includes an excellent guide to SQL data types and how to choose the right one for your needs. When it comes to queries, the book does a great job of exploring all your options for joining relational data, as well as grouping data for more advanced reporting. True to its title, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example is filled with dozens of examples of SQL commands (and the results) so that you can try out this material for yourself and really learn the language thoroughly.
Later on, the authors turn toward server-side programming with a digestible guide to creating stored procedures and triggers. The book closes with an in-depth guide to the issues regarding cursors (for working with table data), transactions and locking. Sections on bulk copy tools and the Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) show how to move data around the enterprise. A final section of distributed queries and linked servers will help you work with different sources of data wherever it resides in your organisation.
Despite some stilted writing, the comprehensive examples in this book make it a success. It will let anyone start using basic T-SQL for the first time, as well as teach more advanced readers to master the finer points of Microsoft databases. --Richard Dragan
Book Description
SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example provides clear and concise examples of basic programming techniques used in SQL Server 2000 primarily using Transact-SQL. Even if you're a complete novice to SQL Server 2000 programming, you will benefit by reading through the book's logical process. SQL Server 2000 is introduced and explored, database structure is designed and built, and finally a variety of programming techniques are studied and reviewed. If you are already familiar with SQL Server 2000 programming, you may use the book as a quick reference guide that provides plenty of pertinent examples.
From the Publisher
Get up to speed on SQL Server 2000 and how to take full advantage of new features
From the Author
It is a book for beginners, and for developers with some experience, searching for some good advice on how to use Transact-SQL language to program databases. It contains more than 400 listings to help you practice every single feature.
The book was born with SQL Server 2000, uses SQL Server 2000, and teaches SQL Server 2000. It is not a transition book, nor a new-features book, it is simply a SQL Server 2000 Programming book.
It covers only programming topics, but it includes a comprehensive section on security, because we believe it is crucial for database developers.
Perhaps you'd prefer to start reading the book from the end, where you can find an entire Appendix on how the new Query Analyzer 2000 works.
If you have already some experience in database development, you will benefit from a comprehensive chapter on Indexes, a chapter on user-defined functions (the longest chapter in the book), and a complete chapter on concurrency, with lots of examples.
You can visit the book website where you can read online an extra chapter on XML support in SQL Server 2000, only available in Internet, and you can download the examples source code for the entire book.
From the Back Cover
About the Author
Carlos E. Rojas is the Database Administrator at Planeta Networks, in Miami, Florida. Prior to this DBA role, he was a consultant and trainer with Manapro in Caracas, Venezuela. He has participated as a speaker in various technet conferences in Venezuela.
Carlos has experience in developing Internet (n-tier) applications using Microsoft technologies, and implementing and administering SQL Server databases.
He is a Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer + Internet (MCSE+I), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), and Microsoft Certified Sales Specialist (MCSS). He is also a voting member and volunteer of PASS, the professional association for SQL Server.
Fernando G. Guerrero is a Principal Technologist and SQL Server Product Consultant for QA Group Ltd., U.K. His main role involves IT training, course development, and internal mentoring. Fernando writes for SQL Server Magazine.
He has also presented a session on SQL Server 2000 at TechEd 2000 Europe, and has been accepted to speak at PASS, VBUG, Technology Week, VSLive, and SQL2THEMAX conferences during the year 2001.
He holds seven Microsoft Professional Certifications including MCSE+Internet, MCSD, MCDBA, and MCT, and has been awarded with the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) status on SQL Server.
