Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585 EAN: 9780735622074 ISBN: 0735622078 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 306 Publication Date: September 13, 2006 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 26968 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionSQL Server 2005 is Microsoft’s next-generation data management and analysis solution that delivers enhanced scalability, availability, and security features to enterprise data and analytical applications while making them easier to create, deploy, and manage. Now you can teach yourself how to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain SQL Server databases—one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Instead of merely focusing on describing new features, this book shows new database programmers and administrators how to use specific features within typical business scenarios. Each chapter puts you to work, providing a highly practical learning experience that demonstrates how to build database solutions to solve common business problems.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Not very good
I'm about 1/2 way through this book and probably going to stop reading it. It's really just a general overview of SQL Server 2005, and is really unhelpful if you actually want to learn to use the software.
Rating: - Mediocre overview of SQL 2005
overview of all aspects but not as clear as could be, lot's of pre-knowledge about visual basic is assumed and not that clearly organized. There are a lot better books out there.
Rating: - Mostly focused on SQL statements for developers and DBA's
There is nothing in this book that you can not find in another more organized book.
Rating: - Horrible!
I have yet to find a book by Microsoft Press that is well-written, and this one is the worst of them all. It was certainly a waste of my money. There are many other books on SQL 2005 that are far better.
Rating: - Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005: Database Essentials Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
A very good material for beginers. I would have like to found this material when I first took a DB class...
- Not very good
- Mediocre overview of SQL 2005
