Introducing Microsoft SQL Server(tm) 2005 for Developers (PRO - Developer)

Get a developer-focused introduction to the new programmability features in the next version of Microsoft SQL Server—including integration with the Microsoft .NET Framework—and learn powerful new ways to manipulate your servers. Whether you’re a developer currently working with T-SQL or Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET, or you’re responsible for database administration, you’ll see how to draw from your existing skills and knowledge to exploit new SQL Server technology. With introductory-level code samples written in both T-SQL and C#, you’ll understand how to take advantage of the cross-platform interoperability, native support for XML and Web services, shared language base, and other programming innovations to build better solutions from business intelligence to enterprise data management.

Peter DeBetta started programming at the age of 10 and eventually turned this pastime into a career. He continued writing software until he attended college, where he switched his computer passions to graphic design. Peter studied linguistics during his four-year undergraduate stay at Bucknell University and eventually applied his human language concepts back into his computer programming.

Shortly after graduating from Bucknell in 1990 and teaching mathematics in a private college preparatory school, Peter began his career in software programming and combined the two passions of his life to begin teaching Microsoft Access and Visual Basic (version 2.0) programming and has been teaching both ever since. Peter acquired other computing skills along the way including Java, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, and his now true love, SQL Server and Transact-SQL.

Peter now teaches exclusively for Wintellect, in addition to consulting and developing enterprise-level software solutions for his own company, DeBetta Software.