Product Description
SQL Server 2000 Fast Answers for DBAs and Developers: - An easy-to-use, day-to-day desk reference
- For all junior, part-time, and reluctant SQL Server DBAs and developers
- Fast facts to help you get the job done SQL Server 2000 is the leading relational database for the Windows platform. It's a full-feautured, enterprise-call database server, but one whose ease of use and maintenance makes it suitable for non-professional DBAs. IF you're new to SQL Server 2000, you will benefit from this book's explanation of the different ways to achieve a task, and the benefits and disadvantages of each method. If you're a more experienced SQL Server DBA, this book enables you quickly to reference the specifics of a command or process, brings you up-to-date with the technology, and helps you refine your craft. SQL Server 2000 Fast Answers for DBAs and Developers gives you: - Thorough 'How to' answers to typical SQL Server database administration and developement questions
- A task-based guide to key parts of the job - installation, configuration, backup, security, replication, failover clustering, DTS, performance, and job automation
- Conceptual overviews that show how all the parts fit together
- Useful and concise syntax examples
- Best practice based on the author's five years of experience with SQL Server
- A place to look when you don't know the answer
Curlingstone is a new imprint providing practical information on all aspects of the technology, techniques, and job roles that form the database community.
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Excellent Reference Book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-10-17
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Overall, this is an excellent book that covers a wide variety of topics useful to any SQL Server 2000 DBA. At this time, though Apress hasn't posted the Table of Contents on Amazon.com, the Table of Contents is posted at the Apress web site.
I took away one star for the CD. It is extremely handy to have a copy of the book on the CD in PDF format. However, rather than having a single PDF file with a Table of Contents linking to each chapter and topic, each chapter is contained in a separate PDF file on the CD. Unless you know which chapter you want to reference, it is tedious to look in separate files for the Table of Contents or the Index, then try to guess in which file the item you are looking for can be found.
A less significant complaint is that the CD holder is found about three-quarters of the way through the book, rather than at the end of the book, which makes it more difficult to quickly flip through the book.
Other than these minor complaints, it is an excellent book.
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