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ASP.NET 2.0: Your Visual Blueprint for Developing Web Applications 

        
Author:   Chris Love
Pages:   339
Disk:    None
Language:   English 
Published:   12/17/2007
ISBN:   978-0470010013
ISBN-10:   0470010010

 

Book Description

Designed for all levels of users-from novice developers to advanced ASP programmers-this book shows how to create interactive Web sites that interface with databases

  • Two-color throughout with more than 500 step-by-step screen shots
  • Tasks are presented on two-page spreads with each step displayed with callouts so readers can see exactly where the action takes place on the screen
  • Covers topics such as pages, controls, events, forms, building an ASP.NET database, Web Services, Web applications, caching, security, deployment, and localization
  • The concepts and techniques presented will make application development uncomplicated
  • The companion Web site features all code that appears in the text, links to Editor and TextPad shareware downloads, and author sample files

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ASP.NET 2.0

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 150 key ASP.NET 2.0 techniques, including:

  • Adding a page to a Web site
  • Writing and reading user cookies
  • Collecting user input with checkboxes
  • Creating an image map
  • Displaying data in the GridView
  • Resetting user passwords
  • Formatting the CreateUser Wizard
  • Using nesting master pages
  • Handling errors on your pages
  • Building a Web service
  • "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips
  • High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
  • Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
  • Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

 

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Inside Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization

        
Author:   Kalen Delaney, Sunil Agarwal, Craig Freedman, Ron Talmage, Adam Machanic
Pages:   448
Disk:    None
Language:   English 
Published:   09/29/2007
ISBN:   9780735621961
ISBN-10:   0735621969

 

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Dive deep into the internals of query tuning and optimization in SQL Server 2005 with this comprehensive reference. Understanding the internals of SQL Server helps database developers and administrators to better create, access, and effectively process information from enterprise data. Written by experts on SQL Server, this volume from the Inside Microsoft SQL Server series of books focuses on query tuning and optimization. Youll take an in-depth look at the best ways to make queries more efficient and effective, while maximizing existing resources. Includes extensive code samples and table examples to help database developers and administrators understand the intricacies and help promote mastery of query tuning and optimization.

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Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: Database Essentials Step by Step

        
Author:   Solid Quality Learning
Pages:   336
Disk:    1 Companion CD(s)
Level:   Beg/Int 
Published:   09/13/2006
ISBN:   9780735622074
ISBN-10:   0-7356-2207-8

 

Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to learning the fundamentals of SQL Server 2005 programming.

Get the guidance you need to start designing databases—one step at a time. With this practical tutorial, you’ll teach yourself the core skills for building and managing databases with the next generation of SQL Server.

Discover how to:

  • Install and configure SQL Server 2005
  • Design database components with SQL Server Management Studio
  • Apply a three-step modeling approach to design databases that meet business requirements
  • Create, modify, and manage views
  • Write user-defined functions and stored procedures using T-SQL
  • Add, delete, and update information in your databases
  • Work with data from custom applications and legacy systems
  • Troubleshoot error messages and handle exceptions

CD features:

  • All practice exercises
  • Code samples
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Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: Applied Techniques Step by Step

        
Author:   Solid Quality Learning
Pages:   368
Disk:    1 Companion CD(s)
Level:   Int/Adv
Published:   06/21/2006
ISBN:   9780735623163
ISBN-10:   0-7356-2316-3

 

Take your database skills to the next level with this hands-on, step-by-step guide.

Learn more-advanced skills to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain SQL Server databases—one step at a time. Ideal for developers who understand database essentials, this learn-by-doing tutorial offers practical guidance, code samples, and a collection of techniques to help you solve real-world business problems.

Discover how to:

  • Manage data access with server logins and user and server roles
  • Implement a disaster recovery strategy
  • Use aggregate functions to compute totals and complex statistical values
  • Optimize query performance by managing IO statistics and designing indexes
  • Work with remote data sources—including third-party databases
  • Provide remote access through the Internet or a middle-tier service interface
  • Manage transactions, implement error handlers, and define isolation levels
  • Go further and work with SQL Server Reporting Services and Notification Services

Includes a CD featuring:

  • All practice exercises
  • Code samples
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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: T-SQL Programming

        
Author:   Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, Roger Wolter
Pages:   544
Disk:    N/A
Level:   Int/Adv
Published:   05/17/2006
ISBN:   9780735621978
ISBN-10:   0-7356-2197-7

 

Exploit advanced T-SQL language features with in-depth architectural insights from the experts.

Get a detailed look at the internal architecture of T-SQL with this comprehensive programming reference. Database developers and administrators get best practices, expert techniques, and code samples to master the intricacies of the programming language—solving complex problems with real-world solutions.

Discover how to:

  • Understand when to apply set-based programming techniques
  • Design and implement date and time-related XML and CLR datatypes
  • Use temporary objects, including temporary tables, table variables, and table expressions
  • Work with T-SQL and CLR user-defined functions, stored procedures, and triggers
  • Support user input-based queries and variable data with dynamic execution
  • Work with transactions and new exception handling constructs
  • Apply a concurrency model to support simultaneous users
  • Use Service Broker for controlled asynchronous processing in database applications

This book includes code samples on the Web.

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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: T-SQL Querying

        
Author:   Itzik Ben-Gan, Lubo Kollar, Dejan Sarka
Pages:   640
Disk:    N/A
Level:   Int/Adv
Published:   03/29/2006
ISBN:   9780735623132
ISBN-10:   0-7356-2313-9

 

Get the in-depth architectural insights you need to exploit advanced T-SQL querying techniques.

Take a detailed look at the internal architecture of T-SQL—and unveil the power of set-based querying—with comprehensive reference and advice from the experts. Database developers and administrators get best practices, sample databases, and code to master the intricacies of the programming language—solving complex problems with real-world solutions.

Discover how to:

  • Understand logical and physical query processing
  • Apply a methodology to optimize query tuning
  • Solve relational division problems
  • Use CTEs and ranking functions to simplify and optimize solutions
  • Aggregate data with various techniques, including tiebreakers, pivoting, histograms, and grouping factors
  • Use the TOP option in a query to modify data
  • Query specialized data structures with recursive logic, materialized path, or nested sets solutions
  • PLUS—Improve your logic and get to the heart of querying problems with logic puzzles

Get code and database samples on the Web

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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-431): Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005—Implementation and Maintenance

        
Author:   Solid Quality Learning
Pages:   992
Disk:    1 Companion CD(s); 1 Evaluation DVD(s)
Level:   Beg/Int
Published:   05/31/2006
ISBN:   9780735622715
ISBN-10:   0-7356-2271-X

 

Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit

Exam Prep Guide

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-431—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practices. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

  • Install and configure SQL Server
  • Create tables and indexes, define columns, and implement constraints
  • Implement functions, stored procedures, and triggers by using Transact-SQL
  • Work with relational and XML data
  • Monitor, troubleshoot and tune queries
  • Maintain database availability with log shipping, database mirroring, and replication
  • Prepare a backup strategy and restore a database


Practice Tests

Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers?including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

Your training kit includes:

  • 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10. Details inside.
  • Official self-paced study guide.
  • Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
  • 450 practice and review questions.
  • Case scenarios, practice exercises, and best practices.
  • 180-day evaluation version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.
  • Fully searchable eBook.

 

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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-445): Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Implementation and Maintenance (Pro - Certification)

        
Author:   Erik Veerman, Teo Lachev, Dejan Sarka, Javier Loria
Pages:   608
Disk:    1 Companion CD(s); 1 Evaluation DVD(s)
Level:   Beg/Int
Published:   11/2007
ISBN:   9780735623415
ISBN-10:   0735623414

 

Book Description 

Announcing an all-new Self-Paced Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on 70-445, the required exam for the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence certification. This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features exam candidates want most-including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and customizable testing options. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.

Work at your own pace through the lessons and lab exercises. Focusing on the technology skills required to build business intelligence applications using SQL Server 2005, this official study guide covers topics such as installing, configuring, and deploying SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, and SQL Server Integration Services.

Then assess yourself using hundreds of practice questions on the CD, featuring multiple, customizable testing options to meet your specific needs. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers-including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get an evaluation version of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition software and an exam discount voucher-making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.

Key Book Benefits:

  • In-depth coverage ofexam objectives and sub-objectives-plus instructive case studies and troubleshooting scenarios to enhance your performance on the job
  • 200+ practice and review questions
  • Test engine that enables customized testing, pre-assessment and post-assessment, and automated scoring and feedback
  • Complete objective-by-objective review section, plus a handy exam-mapping grid
  • 180-day evaluation version of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition
  • 15 percent exam discount voucher from Microsoft (limited-time offer)
  • Entire study guide in searchable eBook format

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Expert SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Programmer to Programmer)

        
Authors:   Brian Knight, Erik Veerman
Pages:   432
Language:    English
Published:   05/2007
ISBN:   978-0470134115
ISBN-10:   0470134119

 

Book Description

As a practical guide for Integration Services ETL development, this book shows you ways to implement your ETL solution requirements from the data to the administration and everything in-between. Each chapter begins with a review of pertinent ETL concepts and moves into working those out into a design with multiple examples and related Integration Services features with the end goal of putting it all together to get a solution.

From the Back Cover

Developing data processing extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) solutions is now easier than ever with this practical guide. It shows you how to apply the components of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) to build an enterprise ETL application that scales and performs to your specifications. You'll not only learn how to design and implement the necessary architecture, you'll also find out how to utilize the proper administration techniques.
Written by two SQL Server MVPs, this book first provides you with all the background and foundation information you'll need on scripting and data extraction. It then takes you through the details of data warehousing ETL, error handling, administration, and data integration. By following this approach, you'll quickly discover how to take advantage of SSIS functionality to meet your data integration and processing requirements.

What you will learn from this book

  • Powerful uses of scripting to develop more advanced applications
  • All about the relational database transformation and loading methods for dimension and fact tables
  • Steps for creating sophisticated solutions that easily handle processing errors
  • Best practices for moving between your support and production environments
  • Tips for leveraging SSIS features that make your migrated packages better
  • How to design and tune your packages to achieve the most scalability

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced SQL Server database developers, architects, and administrators who want to build ETL applications using SSIS.

Wrox Expert books present the wisdom accumulated by an experienced author team who is recognized as experts by the programming community. These experts challenge professional developers to examine their current practices in pursuit of better results.
Enhance Your Knowledge.
Advance Your Career.

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Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Programmer to Programmer)

        
Author:   Brian Knight, Allan Mitchell, Darren Green, Douglas Hinson, Kathi Kellenberger, Andy Leonard, Erik Veerman, Jason Gerard, Haidong Ji, Mike Murphy
Pages:   720
Language:    English
Published:   01/31/2006
ISBN:   978-0764584350
ISBN-10:   0764584359

 

Book Description

This book will help you get past the initial learning curve quickly so that you can get started using SSIS to transform data, create a workflow, or maintain your SQL Server. Offering you hands-on guidance, you'll learn a new world of integration possibilities and be able to move away from scripting complex logic to programming tasks using a full-featured language.

What you will learn from this book

  • Ways to quickly move and transform data
  • How to configure every aspect of SSIS
  • How to interface SSIS with web services and XML
  • Techniques to scale the SSIS and make it more reliable
  • How to migrate DTS packages to SSIS
  • How to create your own custom tasks and user interfaces
  • How to create an application that interfaces with SSIS to manage the environment
  • A detailed usable case study for a complete ETL solution

Who this book is for

This book is for developers, DBAs, and users who are looking to program custom code in all of the .NET languages. It is expected that you know the basics of how to query the SQL Server and have some fundamental programming skills.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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