Synopsis:
Feeling reluctant? The Handbook for Reluctant Database Administrators provides you a solid grasp of what you'll need to design, build, secure, and maintain a database. Author Josef Finsel writes from an understanding point of view; he also crossed over from programming to database administration. Furthermore, DBA veteran Francis Stanisci comments throughout the book, sharing insight from his own years of experience. Core topics include: database design, backups and recovery, indexing, stored procedures, user defined functions, SQL Server error handling (compared to VB error handling), triggers, database security, XML in SQL Server, Data Transformation Services, a special introduction to Performance Tuning, and an overview of how Microsoft's .NET strategy will affect SQL Server.
About the Author:
Josef Finsel is a software consultant specializing in .NET and SQL Server. He has published a number of Visual Basic, .NET, and SQL Server-related articles and is the Q&A columnist for asp.netNOW, the e-newsletter for asp.netPRO magazine. When not working for clients, he works out the syntax for FizzBin.net, a programming language that works the way programmers have always suspected a programming language should.
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