SQL Server 2005 Distilled

Writing at the high-end level, Brown works to provide decision-makers with clear and objective data about Microsoft's latest enterprise database. He introduces the basics behind the software, including general data availability and very large database maintenance, what everyone should know about security, including managed code, end-point security and securing the server, enterprise data management, including replication enhancements and operations management tools, features for database development, business intelligence, including the software's reporting capabilities, and a full chapter on code. He also provides data on the system and the server's built-in functions along with a variety of samples and exercises. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Eric Brown's professional computing work began in earnest in 1996 when he began work at Multiple Zones International as a product manager. While there, he realized the next big wave was the Internet, and raced to get a job at a dot-com. He worked for three dot-coms before ending up on the SQL Server Product Team at Microsoft. At one point in his early DB years, they cut the edge of SQL Server capabilities by owning a 500GB data warehouse running SQL Server 7 and 2000. In the three years he was on the team, he ran “Yukon” readiness. Brown has written a column for SQL Server Magazine, and has written extensively about SQL Server for MSDN Magazine and MSDN online library. Since leaving Microsoft officially, he has worked on this book and started an e-commerce hosting company. He is now working for Quilogy as a senior consultant on the Business Intelligence National Practice.