The expert tuition and approach to rapid learning in Accelerated SQL Server 2008, one of the first SQL Server 2008 books available, will enable SQL Server and other database professionals to make the leap to the latest release of Microsoft’s flagship database management system quickly. Take full advantage of the new features of SQL Server 2008, know what tools are available, and quickly realize the power and ease of use that SQL Server 2008 has to offer.
Lightning–quick introduction to SQL Server 2008
Written by top experts in the field
Provides a solid grounding in key features and technologies
What you’ll learn
Manage SQL Server installations through the brand–new Declarative Management Framework.
Protect yourself from downtime with high–availability features such as failover clustering.
Speed your applications by taking advantage of new performance–enhancement features in SQL Server 2008.
Find what you need using full–text search.
Store, retrieve, and manage XML in the database.
Derive competitive advantage from business intelligence tools such as Analysis Services and Reporting Services.
Who is this book for?
Database professionals who need to make the leap to SQL Server 2008, and who need to make that leap quickly. This audience primarily includes users of previous releases of SQL Server such as SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. The audience also includes database professionals with experience on competing platforms who are moving laterally to SQL Server.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - I just expected better...
I saw this book come out, and had high expectations. The authors are all great guys who really know their stuff. What's more, Donald Farmer is _the_ guy for Data Mining, so I was hoping for a big section about the improvements in that area for SQL 2008.
Looking through it though, it feels like a book that was written for SQL 2005 that just got updated a little for SQL 2008, and that wasn't what I was wanting. And to boot, there are things that are just plain missing. There's not a single ... Read More
Rating: - A good first book.
I needed to get up to speed fast with SQL 2008 as we are migrating our entire infrastructure to windows 2008 products, this book helped me do it. There are many changes in SQL 2008 from new data types, high availability improvements, admin scripting with powershell, my favorite is intellisence is finally in the query windows. This book explained the newly redone reporting services well. It is nothing like the Reporting services in 2005. Good explanations of the new policy management feature in SQL ... Read More
Rating: - Very misleading title!
I've just finished reading the "Development in SQL Server" section of this book (i.e. 40% of the total book).
I assumed the book related solely to SQL Server 2008. The book's introduction, forward, back cover content, and free downloadable chapter 1 led me to that belief.
However, the book relates to both 2005 and 2008, and frustratingly it typically does not say what features belong to which database version.
I wanted a book that showed me what was new in SQL ... Read More
- I just expected better...
- A good first book.
