SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Joseph Sack, "SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach"
Apress | ISBN-10: 1590599802 | July 23, 2008 | 872 pages | PDF | 4.8MB

SQL Server 2008 Transact–SQL Recipes: A Problem–Solution Approach is an example–based guide to the Transact–SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server 2008. Learn to create databases, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Author Joseph Sack takes common Transact–SQL tasks and breaks them down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on.

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Beginning SQL Server 2008 for Developers: From Novice to Professional

Robin Dewson, "Beginning SQL Server 2008 for Developers: From Novice to Professional"
Apress | ISBN-10: 1590599586 | July 24, 2008 | 496 pages | PDF | 14.3MB

SQL Server 2008 is a first–rate database management system. It offers more capability than any previous release of SQL Server. More than just a classic relational database management system, SQL Server 2008 includes exciting and powerful features that make it useful for everything from large corporate data warehouses to ad hoc departmental databases. You’ll find enhanced support for XML, new support for spatial data, transparent data encryption, a policy–based management system, and more.

Author and developer Robin Dewson will show you the way from beginner to SQL Server 2008 professional. Learn to install SQL Server 2008 and navigate around Management Studio before getting right to the heart of mastering fundamental SQL Server 2008 tasks: creating tables, storing data, securing data, and retrieving it again. Dewson ensures you’ll be fully prepared to use all the basics and create a solid foundation for your own projects.

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Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide

Michael Coles, "Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide"
Apress | ISBN-10: 143021001X | August 11, 2008 | 688 pages | PDF | 8MB

Discussing new and existing features, SQL Server designer and administrator Michael Coles takes you on an expert guided tour of Transact–SQL functionality in SQL Server 2008 in his book Pro T–SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide. Fully functioning examples and downloadable source code bring Coles’ technically accurate and engaging treatment of Transact–SQL into your own hands. Step–by–step explanations ensure clarity, and an advocacy of best–practices will steer you down the road to success.

Pro T–SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide is every developer’s key to making full use of SQL Server 2008’s powerful, built–in Transact–SQL language. Transact–SQL is the language developers and DBAs use to interact with SQL Server. It’s used for everything from querying data, to writing stored procedures, to managing the database. New features in SQL Server 2008 include a spatial data type, SQLCLR integration, the MERGE statement, a dramatically improved and market–leading XML feature set, and support for encryption—all of which are covered in this book.

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Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation

Louis Davidson , Kevin Kline , Scott Klein , Kurt Windisch, "Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation"
Apress | ISBN10: 1-4302-0866-X | Aug 2008 | 680 pages | PDF | 10.5MB

Learn effective and scalable database design techniques in a SQL Server environment. Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation covers everything from design logic that business users will understand all the way to the physical implementation of the design in a SQL Server database. Grounded in best practices and a solid understanding of the underlying theory, authors Louis Davidson, Kevin Kline, Scott Klein, and Kurt Windisch show how to “get it right” in SQL Server database design and lay a solid groundwork for the future use of valuable business data.

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A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server: Covering SQL Server 2005 and 2008

Eric Johnson, Joshua Jones, "A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server: Covering SQL Server 2005 and 2008 "
Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN 0321497643 | July 4, 2008 | 304 Pages | PDF | 2.2MB

Effective data modeling is essential to ensuring that your databases will perform well, scale well, and evolve to meet changing requirements. However, if you’re modeling databases to run on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or 2005, theoretical or platform-agnostic data modeling knowledge isn’t enough: models that don’t reflect SQL Server’s unique real-world strengths and weaknesses often lead to disastrous performance.

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