About the Book

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