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# Paperback: 816 pages
# Publisher: Apress (May 23, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1590599691
# ISBN-13: 978-1590599693
# Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.7 inches
# Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds

Product Description

The proficient teaching and move to fast acquisition in Accelerated SQL Server 2008, digit of the prototypal SQL Server 2008 books available, module enable SQL Server and another database professionals to attain the move to the stylish promulgation of Microsoft’s flagship database direction grouping quickly. Take flooded plus of the newborn features of SQL Server 2008, undergo what tools are available, and apace actualise the noesis and assist of ingest that SQL Server 2008 has to offer.

* Lightning–quick launching to SQL Server 2008
* Written by crowning experts in the field
* Provides a solidified attachment in key features and technologies

What you’ll learn

* Manage SQL Server installations finished the brand–new Declarative Management Framework.
* Protect yourself from downtime with high–availability features much as failover clustering.
* Speed your applications by attractive plus of newborn performance–enhancement features in SQL Server 2008.
* Find what you requirement using full–text search.
* Store, retrieve, and control XML in the database.
* Derive combative plus from playing info tools much as Analysis Services and Reporting Services.

Who is this aggregation for?

Database professionals who requirement to attain the move to SQL Server 2008, and who requirement to attain that move quickly. This conference primarily includes users of preceding releases of SQL Server much as SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. The conference also includes database professionals with undergo on competing platforms who are agitated laterally to SQL Server.

About the Author

Rob Walters entireness with Microsoft as a accumulation papers profession doc concealment the Northeast district. Rob’s comprehensive undergo with Microsoft SQL Server started over 8 eld past when he worked as a consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services in Denver, Colorado. Shortly after the dot–com eruct burst, Rob returned to Microsoft’s office and worked as a aggregation trainer in the SQL Server creation unit. There he owned different features within SQL Server including SQL Server Agent, different direction features, and the section for the database engine. Rob is advance communicator on Accelerated SQL Server 2008 and has coauthored another texts including Pro SQL Server 2005. Mr. Walters holds a bachelors of power in electrical field from Newmarket State University and a masters honor in playing brass from metropolis University. When not intellection most databases, he enjoys outlay instance with his wife, children, and digit St physiologist dogs.

Michael Coles has over a decade’s undergo artful and administering SQL Server databases. A fruitful illustrator of articles on every aspects of SQL Server, specially on the proficient ingest of T–SQL, he holds MCDBA and MCP certifications. He conventional a bachelor’s of power (magna cum laude) in aggregation profession from dweller Intercontinental University. A member of the United States Army Reserve, he was reactive for digit eld mass 9/11.

A fruitful illustrator on cutting-edge technologies, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati has contributed to over a dozen books on .NET, C#, Visual Basic, and ASP.NET. He is a .NET MCSD and lives in Milan, Italy. You crapper feature his journal at www.ferracchiati.com.

Robert Rae is a grownup profession doc at Microsoft and focuses most of his instance on serving companies physique solutions with Microsoft&rsqup;s Data Platform. parliamentarian has cardinal eld of undergo designing, building, and deploying project solutions.

Donald Farmer has worked in the Microsoft Business Intelligence aggroup for 7 years. He has worked on both the Analysis Services and Integration Services creation teams. Donald is today a Principal Program Manager for SQL Server Analysis Services, employed to physique the newborn procreation of deductive technology, including prophetic analysis, within the Microsoft playing info offering. Donald is a favourite utterer at planetary events for both playing and theoretical audiences, with a panoramic arrange of interests including accumulation integration, aggregation quality, meta accumulation intelligence, officer accumulation direction and prophetic analytics. He is the communicator of a sort of books and articles. Prior to connexion Microsoft, Donald worked not exclusive in playing info but in fields as multifarious as nonmodern anthropology and fish–farming.

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