Beginning SQL Server 2005 for Developers (eBook)

* The only truly Beginning level book on the market that is tailored to the needs of aspiring developers with little or no experience. Assumes no prior SQL Server knowledge.

* Explores the new 2005 features fully but also suitable for SQL Server 2000 users.

* The book provides everything an aspiring developer needs to start building SQL Server database applications.

Robin Dewson has been hooked on programming ever since he bought his first computer, a Sinclair ZX80, in 1980. He has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5 and Visual Basic since version 5. Robin is a consultant mainly in the city of London, where he has been for nearly eight years. He also has been developing a rugby-related website as well as maintaining his own site at Fat-Belly.com.

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Purchase this book and you'll get the free, fully searchable eBook—a $25 value! (Details are printed inside the book.)SQL Server 2005 will increase your programming options, productivity, analysis, and database management. If you have some basic knowledge of relational databases and want to start a career as a developer using SQL Server, then this book is your ideal first step. It explains the core jobs and roles for developing a database in both SQL Server 2000 and 2005.This book features practical steps to help you overcome issues youre likely to encounter. You’ll learn to use SQL for querying, inserting, updating, and deleting data. You’ll also learn how to back up and restore databases for basic administration in SQL Server. Further, you’ll cover how to build a complete database, from the fundamentals of relational database design to table and index creation.Additionally, you’ll start to program in T-SQL, SQL Servers implementation (and extension) of the SQL programming language, and you’ll come away with effective programming techniques using stored procedures and triggers.