What is this book about? SQL Server 2000 is the latest and most powerful version of Microsoft's data warehousing and relational database management system. This new release is tightly integrated with Windows 2000 and offers more support for XML, as well as improved Analysis Services for OLAP and data mining.
Professional SQL Server 2000 provides a comprehensive guide to programming with SQL Server 2000, from a complete tutorial on Transact-SQL to an in-depth discussion of new features, such as indexed views, user-defined functions, and the wealth of new SQL Server features to support XML. Whether you're coming to SQL Server 2000 from another relational database management system, upgrading your existing system, or perhaps wanting to add programming skills to your DBA knowledge, you'll find what you need in this book to get to grips with SQL Server 2000 development.
What does this book cover?
Here are just a few of the things covered in this book:
- A complete introduction to Transact-SQL
- Database design issues
- Creating and using views, stored procedures, and user- defined functions
- Responding to events with triggers
- Making your SQL Server secure
- Retrieving your data as XML
- An introduction to Analysis Services
- Moving data using Data Transformation Services and the bulk copy program
- Maintaining the integrity of distributed data with replication
Who is this book for?
This book is aimed at the SQL Server developer who wants to make the most out of the new features of SQL Server 2000. No knowledge of SQL Server is assumed, although in order to follow this book, you do need to have an understanding of programming basics such as variables, data types, and procedural programming. Database administration is also covered but only as it affects the SQL Server developer.
Table of Contents:
Introduction. Chapter 1: SQL Server 2000 – Particulars and History.
Chapter 2: RDBMS Basics: What Makes Up a SQL Server Database?
Chapter 3: Tools of the Trade.
Chapter 4: The Foundation Statements of T-SQL.
Chapter 5: Joining Tables.
Chapter 6: Creating and Altering Tables.
Chapter 7: Constraints.
Chapter 8: Normalization and Other Basic Design Issues.
Chapter 9: SQL Server Storage and Index Structures.
Chapter 10: Views.
Chapter 11: Writing Scripts and Batches.
Chapter 12: Stored Procedures.
Chapter 13: User Defined Functions.
Chapter 14: Transactions and Locks.
Chapter 15: Triggers.
Chapter 16: Advanced Queries.
Chapter 17: Distributed Queries and Transactions.
Chapter 18: SQL Cursors.
Chapter 19: A Brief XML Primer.
Chapter 20: Integration of XML into SQL Server.
Chapter 21: The Bulk Copy Program (bcp).
Chapter 22: Introduction to Data Transformation Services.
Chapter 23: Replication.
Chapter 24: Advanced Design.
Chapter 25: Analysis Services.
Chapter 26: Full-Text Search.
Chapter 27: English Query.
Chapter 28: Security.
Chapter 29: Performance Tuning.
Chapter 30: Administration Overview.
Chapter 31: Advanced DTS.
Chapter 32: Scripting Administrative Functions with WMI.
Appendix A: System Functions.
Appendix B: Function Listing.
Appendix C: Tools for Our Time.
Appendix D: Access Upsizing.
Appendix E: Microsoft Data Transformation Services Package Object Library Reference.
Index.
