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Essential SQL on SQL Server 2008

FREE EBOOK EXPERT @ LAKU-ABIS — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:50:16 +0000

Essential SQL on SQL Server 2008

SQLServ er® database software is one of the most powerful database engines used today. Microsoft’s latest release of SQLServ er, SQLServ er® 2008, is a comprehensive database platform that provides secure and reliable storage for both relational and structured data, enabling one to build and manage high-performance data applications. SQLServ er 2008’s close integration with Microsoft® Visual Studio® development system, Microsoft® Office® system, and a suite of new development tools sets it apart from previous versions and from other database engines.
This system allows one to build, debug, and operate applications faster than ever before. SQLServ er 2008 can be installed on small machines using the Microsoft ® Windows® operating system as well as large servers. In recent years, the computer industry has seen a dramatic increase in the popularity of relational databases and multiuser databases, and there is a great need for application developers and people who can write SQLco de efficiently and correctly for relational and multiuser databases.

This book focuses on SQL programming using SQLServ er 2008—a relational and multiuser database. The book is aimed at students who wish to learn SQLusing Microsoft’s SQLServ er 2008, and is expected to be used by schools and SQLtraining
organizations, as well as by database and IT professionals who are actively working with SQLServ er 2008.

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DBA Survivor – Become a Rock Star DBA

FREE EBOOK EXPERT @ LAKU-ABIS — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:44:38 +0000

DBA Survivor - Become a Rock Star DBA

Another thing you need to know about being a DBA is that you will have fewer friends at work than when you started. Now, that is not necessarily a bad thing. See, you have been placed into a position of responsibility, and with this responsibility you will need to make some decisions, and those decisions will not always be popular. Thus, you may lose some friends at work, but these losses will be more than offset by the gains you have in the overall DBA community. So you have that going for you, which is nice.
With that responsibility, you will also find that you start getting more blame than credit for your work. I promise you this: no one will ever stop by your desk in the morning and thank you for the fact that everything ran smoothly last night. But you better believe if a batch load took five minutes longer than expected, you will have four different people asking you “WTF?”

While being a DBA may not be all unicorns and rainbows, it has the potential to be the most rewarding career path you could ever be presented with. Ask around and you will find that most people cherish having a good DBA on hand. It is my hope that this book will give you the tools
necessary to be that DBA—the one they decide they cannot live without.

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SQL Puzzles and Answers

FREE EBOOK EXPERT @ LAKU-ABIS — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:36:45 +0000

SQL Puzzles and Answers

some smaller publications and then finally faded away. Today, I throw out a puzzle or two on the www.dbazine.com Web site and other places on the Internet rather than in print media. Over the years, college students had all kinds of programming contests that used the procedural language du jour—C, Pascal, then Java and C++ today. There is not much for database programmers to test themselves against, except my little puzzle book.

Back in the early and mid-1990s, I wrote regular magazine columns inDatabase Programming & Design and later in DBMS magazine. Thegimmick I used to attract reader responses was to end each columnwith a SQL programming puzzle. Ten years later, those two magazineswere consolidated into Intelligent Enterprise. My SQL puzzles moved tosome smaller publications and then finally faded away. Today, I throwout a puzzle or two on the www.dbazine.com Web site and otherplaces on the Internet rather than in print media.Over the years, college students had all kinds of programmingcontests that used the procedural language du jour—C, Pascal, thenJava and C++ today. There is not much for database programmers totest themselves against, except my little puzzle book.

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Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting

FREE EBOOK EXPERT @ LAKU-ABIS — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:27:23 +0000

Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting

WHILE PUTTING TOGETHER THE PROPOSAL that eventually became this book, the aim was to write a
troubleshooting guide that covered the additional tools available from the SQL Server community.
It soon became clear, however, that to effectively talk about the tools, so many digressions were
necessary to explain the results that the fl ow and impact were interrupted. The decision was made
to alter the approach to include architectural information, not just on SQL Server, but on the whole
platform on which SQL Server depends.

If you’re troubleshooting an apparent “SQL Server” issue, you need to be able to troubleshoot the
underlying operating system and storage as well as SQL Server, so we wanted to bring together and
simplify the architectural details of these components too.
A fair amount of Windows and storage internals information is available already, but very little of
it that condenses and filters the right material to be easily consumed by SQL Server professionals.
The available material is either too light or too in depth — with nothing to help bridge the gap.

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