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

SQL Server 2005 is Microsoft’s next-generation data management and analysis solution that delivers enhanced scalability, availability, and security features to enterprise data and analytical applications while making them easier to create, deploy, and manage. Now you can teach yourself how to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain SQL Server databases—one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Instead of merely focusing on describing new features, this book shows new database programmers and administrators how to use specific features within typical business scenarios. Each chapter puts you to work, providing a highly practical learning experience that demonstrates how to build database solutions to solve common business problems.

Fernando Guerrero is cofounder and CEO of Solid Quality Learning. He is a longtime Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and was recently appointed a Microsoft Regional Director. He has spent the last few years teaching and applying SQL Server and data access technologies all over the world, as well as speaking at conferences and summits organized by INETA, Microsoft, PASS, and other organizations. He also teaches and provides mentoring to customers worldwide. He is the coauthor of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example.