Osborne is committed to providing the highest quality books on SQL Server 7 to the market. SQL Server 7 Administration's outline has gone through a peer review by multiple authors in the Database Professional's Library. Additionally, it was tech reviewed by Lars Klander, MCSD, MCSE, MCT.In addition to ensuring quality content, key features include: Case studies: boxed text elements providing real scenarios based on the authors' consulting experience - but not containing company names. Each case study describes the type of business, number of databases running, number of users, and the situation that was solved with specific steps. On-line scripts: These are downloadable from Osborne's website and include SQL statements that can be used to build stored procedures that apply to all databases and script examples of advanced techniques that must be tweaked for specific scenarios.
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