Beginning SQL Server 2005 For Developers and Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express for developers features practical steps to help you overcome issues you're 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.

Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies provides a detailed and example-driven tutorial on how to build and use .NET assemblies. The authors focus on building assemblies in C#, but also provide the equivalent VB .NET code in the supplied code download.

You'll be able to work on your own SQL Server 2005 solutions quickly and painlessly. The book's core topics include enhancements to database programmability features and languages, such as ADO.NET, XML, .NET assemblies, and T-SQL. Other topics include services and tools like Reporting Services, the Service Broker, and DTS, and enhancements to the BI capabilities such as Analysis and Notification services.

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Handbook shows how to write faster and more robust stored procedures and functions; learn effective, real-world solutions to common problems faces by database developers, designers, and administrators; and master topics such as optimizing and debugging procedures, and handling transactions and concurrency. For intermediate to advanced level users. Softcover.