Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

P style="MARGIN: 0px"Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed/P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Ray Rankins/P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Paul Bertucci/P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Chris Gallelli/P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Alex T. Silverstein/P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Includes full coverage of SQL Server 2008 in addition to R2 coverage/P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"This is the industry’s most comprehensive and useful guide to SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. It presents start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server’s core database server and management capabilities, plus complete introductions to Integration, Reporting, and Analysis Services, application development, and much more./P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Four expert SQL Server administrators, developers, and consultants have packed this book with real-world information, tips, guidelines, and samples drawn from their own extensive experience creating and managing complex database solutions. Writing for intermediate-to-advanced-level SQL Server professionals, they focus on the product’s most complex and powerful capabilities, and its newest tools and features. For example, you’ll find invaluable information on administering SQL Server more efficiently, analyzing and optimizing queries, implementing data warehouses, ensuring high availability, and tuning performance./P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"The accompanying CD-ROM contains an extraordinary library of practical tools and information including sample databases and all code examples. Whether you’re responsible for SQL Server 2008 analysis, design, implementation, support, administration, or troubleshooting, no other book offers you this much value./P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P UL LIUnderstand the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 environment, R2’s newest features, and each edition’s capabilities/LI LIManage SQL Server 2008 more effectively with SQL Server Management Studio, the SQLCMD command-line query tool, and Powershell/LI LIEfficiently manage security, users, backup/restore, replication, Database Mail, and database objects–from tables and indexes to stored procedures and triggers/LI LIIncrease availability with clustering, database mirroring, and other features/LI LIUse new Policy-Based Management to centrally configure and operate SQL Server throughout the organization/LI LIUse SQL Server Profiler to capture queries and identify bottlenecks/LI LIImprove performance by optimizing queries, design more effective databases, and manage workloads with the new Resource Governor/LI LIDevelop applications using SQL Server 2008’s enhancements to T-SQL and SQLCLR, .NET integration, LINQ to SQL, XML, and XQuery/LI LIMake the most of Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services–especially Microsoft’s new R2 reporting improvements/LI LIImprove data security using Column-level and Transparent Data Encryption/LI/UL P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px" Ray Rankins, president of Gotham Consulting Services, has worked with Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server for more than 23 years and is coauthor of Sybase SQL Server Unleashed, IMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed/I, and IMicrosoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed/I. Paul Bertucci, founder of Database Architechs, has more than 30 years of experience in database design, architecture, replication, tuning, integration, and high availability. Chris Gallelli, president of CGAL Consulting Services, specializes in database administration, tuning, and programming. Alex T. Silverstein is managing principal and chief architect of Unified Digital Group, LLC, a developer of custom SQL Server and Microsoft .NET solutions./P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"CD-ROM includes:/P UL LI15 additional chapters/LI LICode samples, scripts, and databases utilized within the book /LI LIFree version of SQL Shot (performance tuning software)/LI/UL P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Category: Database / Microsoft SQL Server/P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Covers: Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2/P P style="MARGIN: 0px"User Level: Intermediate—Advanced/P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P