Friday, January 2, 2009

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services or Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

Author: Brian Larson

The bestselling guide to Microsoft's number-one Business Intelligence tool--updated for the latest release

This hands-on guide explains how to create, manage, and deliver traditional and interactive reports with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. You will find fully up-to-date coverage of all of the new and improved features available in this powerful server-based reporting solution.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services covers the entire report-building and distribution process, including data extraction, integration with desktop and Web applications, and end-user access. Filled with more than 60 practical, reusable report and code samples, this book helps you improve business decision-making in the organization by getting the right information to the right people at the right time.



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Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming

Author: Robert Vieira



• After a quick primer on database design basics and the SQL query language (for those programmers who may be building their first database application), this book provides an overview of SQL Server itself, which has been dramatically redesigned with the 2005 release

• Once readers have grasped the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, they will then learn how to implement those concepts with Microsoft SQL Server 2005

• Addresses creating and changing tables, managing keys, database normalization, writing scripts, working with stored procedures, programming with XML, and using SQL Server reporting and data transformation services

• The companion Web site provides all of the code found in the book




Table of Contents:
Ch. 1RDBMS basics : what makes up a SQL Server database?1
Ch. 2Tools of the trade19
Ch. 3The foundation statements of T-SQL41
Ch. 4JOINs79
Ch. 5Creating and altering tables111
Ch. 6Constraints151
Ch. 7Adding more to our queries185
Ch. 8Being normal : normalization and other basic design issues207
Ch. 9SQL Server storage and index structures255
Ch. 10Views289
Ch. 11Writing scripts and batches315
Ch. 12Stored procedures341
Ch. 13User defined functions409
Ch. 14Transactions and locks425
Ch. 15Triggers447
Ch. 16A brief XML primer469
Ch. 17Reporting for duty, sir! : a look at reporting services517
Ch. 18Getting integrated with integration services539
Ch. 19Playing administrator555

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