Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed (Paperback)

~ (Author), Paul Bertucci (Author), Chris Gallelli (Author), Alex T. Silverstein (Author)
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<>Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed offers comprehensive coverage of SQL Server 2005 that goes beyond the basic syntax and information you’ll find in the product manuals, providing in-depth information derived from the authors’ real-world experience to help you build upon your working knowledge of the product and take your experience and knowledge to a higher level. This book focuses primarily on the information needed by system and database administrators, as well as for users with overlapping duties as both DBA and developer. Included is extensive coverage of the new features and upgraded tools and capabilities of SQL Server 2005, including .NET Framework integration, Integration Services, Service Broker, Database Mirroring and Snapshots, and Reporting Services.

 

Detailed information on…

• Installing, upgrading, and administering SQL Server 2005
• Database maintenance, backup, and recovery
• Creating and managing tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions
• Database and index design
• SQL Server query optimization, and performance monitoring and tuning
• Transactions, transaction management, and distributed transactions
• SQL Server Management Studio—NEW!
• SQL Server Notification Services; Integration Services—NEW!; Analysis Services; Reporting Services—NEW!; Web Services—NEW!
• SQL Server Service Broker—NEW!
• SQL Server and Microsoft .NET Framework integration, including CLR-based stored procedures, functions, and triggers—NEW!
• SQL Server high availability and SQL Server clustering and replication
• Database Mirroring—NEW!
• Database Snapshots—NEW!
• Using XML in SQL Server 2005
• SQL Server tools and utilities

 

CD-ROM includes

• 8 bonus chapters covering topics such as Notification Services, Service Broker, and Full-Text Search
• Code samples, scripts, and sample databases
• A PDF version of the entire book

 

Introduction

Part I Welcome to Microsoft SQL Server

1 SQL Server 2005 Overview

2 What’s New in SQL Server 2005

Part II SQL Server Tools and Utilities

3 SQL Server Management Studio

4 SQL Server Command-Line Utilities

5 SQL Server Profiler

Part III SQL Server Administration

6 SQL Server System and Database Administration

7 Installing SQL Server 2005

8 Upgrading to SQL Server 2005

9 Client Installation and Configuration

10 Security and User Administration

11 Database Backup and Restore

12 Database Mail

13 SQL Server Scheduling and Notification

14 SQL Server High Availability.

15 Replication

16 Database Mirroring

17 SQL Server Clustering

Part IV Database Administration

18 Creating and Managing Databases

19 Creating and Managing Tables

20 Creating and Managing Indexes

21 Implementing Data Integrity

22 Creating and Managing Views in SQL Server

23 Creating and Managing Stored Procedures

24 Creating and Managing User-Defined Functions

25 Creating and Managing Triggers

26 Transaction Management and the Transaction Log

27 Database Snapshots

28 Database Maintenance

Part V SQL Server Performance and Optimization

29 Indexes and Performance

30 Understanding Query Optimization

31 Query Analysis

32 Locking and Performance

33 Database Design and Performance

34 Monitoring SQL Server Performance

Part VI SQL Server Application Development

35 What’s New for Transact-SQL in SQL Server 2005

36 SQL Server and the .NET Framework

37 Using XML in SQL Server 2005

38 SQL Server Web Services

Part VII SQL Server Business Intelligence Features

39 SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

40 SQL Server Integration Services

41 SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Bonus Chapters on the CD

42 Managing Linked and Remote Servers

43 Configuring, Tuning, and Optimizing SQL Server Options

44 Administering Very Large SQL Server Databases

45 SQL Server Disaster Recovery Planning

46 Transact-SQL Programming Guidelines, Tips, and Tricks

47 SQL Server Notification Services

48 SQL Server Service Broker

49 SQL Server Full-Text Search

Index

 

About the Author

About the Lead Authors

Ray Rankins is owner and president of Gotham Consulting Services, Inc. (http://www.gothamconsulting.com), near Saratoga Springs, New York. Ray has been working with Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server for more than 20 years and has experience in database administration, database design, project management, application development, consulting, courseware development, and training. He has worked in a variety of industries, including financial, manufacturing, health care, retail, insurance, communications, public utilities, and state and federal government. His expertise is in database performance and tuning, query analysis, advanced SQL programming and stored procedure development, database design, data architecture, and database application design and development. Ray's presentations on these topics at user group conferences have been very well received. Ray is coauthor of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed (first and second editions), Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed (all editions), Sybase SQL Server 11 Unleashed, and Sybase SQL Server 11 DBA Survival Guide, second edition, all published by Sams Publishing. He has also authored a number of articles, white papers, and database-related courses. As an instructor, Ray regularly teaches classes on SQL, advanced SQL programming and optimization, database design, database administration, and database performance and tuning. Ray's ability to bring his real-world experience into the classroom consistently rates very high marks from students in his classes for both his instructional skills and courseware. Ray can be reached at [e-mail].

Paul Bertucci is the founder of Database Architechs (http://www.dbarchitechs.com), a database consulting firm with offices in the United States and Paris, France. He has more than 26 years of experience with database design, data architecture, data replication, performance and tuning, distributed data systems, data integration, high-availability assessments, and systems integration for numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Intel, 3COM, Coca- Cola, Apple, Toshiba, Lockheed, Wells Fargo, Safeway, Texaco, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Sybase, Symantec, Veritas, and Honda, to name a few. He has authored numerous articles, standards, and high-profile courses, such as Sybase's "Performance and Tuning" and "Physical Database Design" courses. Other Sams Publishing books that he has authored include the highly popular Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed, ADO.NET in 24 Hours, and Microsoft SQL Server High Availability. He has deployed numerous systems with Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, and Oracle database engines, and he has designed/architected several commercially available tools in the database, data modeling, performance and tuning, data integration, and multidimensional planning spaces. Paul's current working arrangement is as Symantec Corporations Chief Data Architect, and he also serves part time as chief technical advisor for a data integration server software company. Paul received his formal education in computer science and electrical engineering from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!). He lives in the great Pacific northwest (Oregon) with his wife, Vilay, and five children, Donny, Juliana, Paul Jr., Marissa, and Nina. Paul can be reached at [e-mail] or [e-mail].

Chris Gallelli is president of CGAL Consulting Services, Inc. His company focuses on consulting services in the areas of database administration, database tuning, and database programming using Visual Basic .NET. Chris has more than 10 years of experience with SQL Server and more than 20 years in the field of Information Technology. He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration from Union College. Chris was also one of the authors of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed published by Sams Publishing. Chris currently lives near Albany, New York, with his lovely wife, Laura, and two daughters, Rachael and Kayla. You can contact Chris at [e-mail].

Alex T. Silverstein is managing principal and chief architect of the Unified Digital Group, LLC, a consulting and custom software development firm headquartered near Saratoga Springs, New York. He specializes in designing SQL Server and Microsoft .NET-powered solutions using the principles of Agile development and the Rational Unified Process. Alex has more than a decade of experience providing application development, database administration, and training services worldwide to a variety of industries. He was also a contributing author for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed published by Sams Publishing. You can reach Alex anytimeat [e-mail].

About the Contributing Authors

Tudor Trufinescu joined Microsoft in January 1999, and has since worked on a number of projects and technologies, including Microsoft Metadata services, HTTP-DAV, and SQL Server Reporting Services. He was one of the founding members of the SQL Server reporting services team. His team designed and built the server components of Reporting Services and the report controls included in Visual Studio 2005. Before joining Microsoft, Tudor helped build a number of software solutions, including a workflow and document management application and a real-time production monitoring system. Tudor received his degree in Electronic Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Bucharest, Romania, in 1992. Tudor and his family currently live in Redmond, Washington.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1752 pages
• Publisher: Sams (December 31, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672328240
• ISBN-13: 978-0672328244
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.9 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All DBA should have this on their book shelf - Review of Database Administrator SQLAuthority.com, June 23, 2007

By	Pinalkumar Dave "Pinal Dave" (SQLAuthority.com) - See all my reviews

SQLAuthority.com Book Review :
Microsoft(R) SQL Server 2005 Unleashed (Paperback)
by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein

Short Review :
SQL Server 2005 Unleashed is focused on Database Administration and day-to-day administrative management aspects of SQL Server. All the chapters of this book are heavily based on Book On-line (BOL) and it continue discussing the topics, where BOL leaves off. This makes this book a good reference for those who are looking for additional information, tricks & tips, and behind the scene details. I recommend this book as a wonderful read and hands-on guide for quick reference for Database Administrators.

Detail Review :
Every database book is either for Database Administrators or Database Developers/Architecture. This book covers many details about Database Administration in depth, however there is enough information for Database Developer to satisfy their expectation. This book is more than just a syntax reference, as it continues the topic where Book On-line leaves off. This book provides a behind-the-scenes look into SQL Server, this is very important for experienced DBA. Many DBA does the same job everyday to maintain the SQL Server in optimal condition, there are many task which can be automated to save time and make Database Administration easier. The book covers various methods automatic the routine task of database backup, recovery, database maintenance tasks etc.

There are few new features introduced in SQL Server 2005. This book successfully covers almost all of them. I have been using SQL Server 2005 for almost two years and SQL Server for more than 5 years, I found this book interesting and informative.The chapter about SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) (replacement of SQL Server 2000 Query Analyzer, Enterprise Manager and Analysis Manager) is quite accurate for those who wants to learn from beginning and it is must read. This book provides very good introduction to SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) features - Analysis Services, Integration Services, Reporting Services. Backup are most vital responsibility of DBA, which is in depth covered in this book. Managing maintenance plans, backup strategies, backup methods, snapshot backup (new 2005 feature), Mirrored database for backup are highly relevant to backup process.

Authors have done good job keeping each chapter independent. I find it always easy to read when I do not have to jump pages in book to refer the examples of other chapters. Each chapter contains lots of figures about topic which authors are discussing. Occasionally, I felt that I am reading the BOL documentation due to nature of few of the topics. As per my opinion, it is unavoidable to stay away from BOL when writing about SQL Server. Authors have done their best to avoid duplication of the code and have pointed few times to BOL to refer advanced syntax, while they continued discussing about additional information and tricks extending BOL.

Lots of figures and lots of syntax makes this book larger than few other an average book - 1752 pages and 5 lbs. Due to this reasons few additional chapters are included onaccompanied CD. Do not forget to go over the CD, as it contains few interesting chapters - Transact-SQL Programming Guidelines, Tips, and Tricks, and SQL Server Full-Text Search. The index of book includes the chapters on the CD as well. I wish that all the chapters in CD were in book, just to have everything at one place. Few chapters in this book are very simple and placed on CD instead of the important and informative chapters, which are on CD currently.

Authors have explained T-SQL concept along with tips which makes this book interesting read. Some of the tips may be well known but still must read to understand the T-SQL completely.

Example : CHECK constraints allow insertions and updates to the table to proceed when the CHECK constraint expression does not evaluate to FALSE. A NULL value is considered to be unknown an does not evaluate to FALSE.

Book's inclination towards database administration sometimes makes the T-SQL tips interesting to read.

Example : The REORGANIZE operation can generate a large number of transactions during its execution. Another reason for disabling a non-clustered index is to reduce the space requirements when rebuilding the index.

Chapters of this books can be read independent to each other. If you want to read it in order, I recommend following order to read them.
Part I Welcome to Microsoft SQL Server
Part III SQL Server Administration
Part II SQL Server Tools and Utilities
Part IV Database Administration
Part VI SQL Server Application Development
Part V SQL Server Performance and Optimization
Part VII SQL Server Business Intelligence Features
Bonus Chapters on the CD

Pros :
In depth coverage of most of the Database Administrative Tasks.
Good coverage of T-SQL.
Interesting approach towards Database Administrative tasks with T-SQL
Simple and precise introduction to Business Intelligence (BI)
Full coverage of backup technology
Bonus articles in CD
Safari books online enabled

Cons:
Lack of examples or quiz at the end of chapters (for those who like to check their knowledge after reading chapter)
Shallow summary at the end of chapter
Chapter organization (order they are listed in book) can be better. Articles in CD are good and should have been included in main book.
Heavy book with more than 1700 pages.

Rating : 4 and 1/2 stars

In Summary, Every DBA should have this book on their book-shelf.

Pinal Dave
Principal Database Administrator
(http://www.SQLAuthority.com)

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best SQL Server book ever, July 5, 2007

By	Brian Magill (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have owned the previous two versions of this book, for SQL 7 and for SQL 2000. I waited almost two years (seems like it..) for these folks to finally get the SQL 2005 edition out, and it's as good as the others. Randomly opening the book, I could not only start on any page, but I learned something immediately. The writing is incredibly clear and straightforward without being simple, and while large portions of this edition are probably redundant with previous editions, no other book on SQL Server spends more time open on my desk than "Unleashed". One of my favorite technical books, period.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most comprehensive SQL 2005 book in the market, January 25, 2008

By	Jaewoo Kim (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This book covers most aspects of SQL 2005. Some topics are only covered at a perfunctory level (Business Intelligence, SSIS, T-SQL etc). But many of the topics, especially archtectural ones, are covered with high level of expertise.

If you need to buy one book that covers most aspects of SQL 2005 then this should be the one. It is better and more comprehensive than "SQL 2000 Unleashed", which was also an excellent book.

Here are the topics the book covers especially well:
1)SQL 2005 Install and upgrade
2)Replication
3)Data Mirroring and other high availability solutions.
4)Index and Statistics.
5)Locking and Deadlocks.

There are better books out there for each of individual the topics of SQL 2005. But there are no book I know of which covers them as comprehensively at a high level as this book.