The SQL Server 7.0 Handbook: A Guide to Microsoft Database Computing

Let the experts help you work smarter with the new SQL Server.

The SQL Server 7.0 Handbook concisely and authoritatively explains how to design, implement, administer, and tune Microsoft's powerful new database management system for Windows NT. Readers will learn all major SQL Server 7.0 capabilities, especially its new scalability, decision support, performance, and replication features. The authors, recognized SQL Server authorities, including a former SQL Server product manager, explain how to use the database with other critical Microsoft data management technologies and products, including Microsoft Transaction Server and Active Data Objects (ADO).

No other book will enable database administrators, designers, programmers, and IT managers to master SQL Server 7.0 more thoroughly or quickly. Computer professionals studying for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCSE) qualifications will find this book essential reading.


Learn major new SQL Server 7.0 scalability and replication features
Optimize and secure SQL Server 7.0
Develop data warehouses with SQL Server 7.0 decision support capabilities and OLAP Services

Ken England is President and Founder of Database Technologies, a database consulting, product evaluation and training firm. A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Ken England is widely regarded as an authority on SQL Server and other leading database products. He is also the author of the SQL Server 6.5 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook.

Nigel Stanley is Technical Director of a leading UK Microsoft partner. He leads a team of consultants and engineers providing business IT solutions, data warehouses, .NET training and consultancy. He previously worked for Microsoft, first as a systems engineer specializing in databases and developer technologies, and later as a product manager responsible for the Microsoft client server products. His first book, The SQL Server Handbook (Digital Press, 1995) covers Microsoft SQL Server in depth. The latest edition of the SQL Server Handbook for version 7.0 of SQL Server was released in June 1999.