Your organization today faces numerous data challenges. You need your people to make faster and more data-driven decisions, your developers to be more productive and flexible, and your managers to reduce their overall information technology (IT) budgets even as they scale your infrastructure to meet ever-increasing demands. SQL Server 2005 is designed to help enterprises address these challenges. This next-generation data-management and analysis solution delivers increased security, scalability, and availability to enterprise data and analytical applications, while making them easier to build, deploy, and manage. Extending the strengths of SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 provides an integrated data management and analysis solution that can help your staff do the following: Build,... Less

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 : Empowering Data Solution Software Working on many IT applications each day can make some users frustrated or downright angry. Some apps are so complex and time consuming that they leave little time for anything else, eating up a whole day's worth of productivity and costing the company more time and money that is really necessary. For every man hour that is spent on a complex app that could be simplified and better performed the company is losing just that much in salary. Add that up to several hours per day and by the end of the week and you have lost a whole day or more, on average to needlessly complicated data-related applications. If you are ready to upgrade and need a good, reliable data management system that will streamline many of your procedures by... Less

Get comprehensive information to plan, deploy, administer, and support Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in organizations of any size. With the ADMINISTRATOR S COMPANION, you get mission-critical information in a single volume--straight from the experts. This comprehensive administrator s reference delivers the details you need to successfully plan, deploy, administer, and support Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The authors--experts in database technologies-- provide easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for everyday, on-the-job results. Delve into system features and capabilities-- and get hands-on insights for implementing business intelligence applications in organizations of any size. This book coves planning and designing optimal database systems,... Less

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SQL 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... Less

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed   Michael Lisin Jim Joseph Amit Goyal   The authoritative, example-rich guide to Microsoft’s powerful reporting platform With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services you can quickly deliver relevant business intelligence data wherever it’s needed–across the entire enterprise, and through the entire reporting lifecycle. SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed gives you all the authoritative information you’ll need to make the most of Microsoft’s most powerful reporting platform as a database professional, manager, or user. In-depth coverage makes this book an ideal reference, and its extensive set of practical examples help you address virtually any challenge in deployment, configuration, administration, or report... Less

All medium to large companies have to deal with data being stored in a number of databases, spreadsheets and proprietary applications. Bringing all this data together into one system can be useful to analyzing the business; but can also be quite difficult to do. Integration Services is the next big bet in Microsoft's business intelligence lineup, providing you with true enterprise extract transform and load features (ETL).   Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services concentr ates on providing you with real world solutions to real world problems, giving you a head start on various projects. If you are only evaluating Integration Services, you'll be able to focus on the early chapters with the option of drilling down into details in the later chapters where some of the more complex... Less