Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express for Developers

1. Front Matter

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2. SQL Server 2005 Express Overview and Installation

   Pages 1-20

3. SQL Server Management Studio Express

   Pages 21-44

4. Database Design and Creation

   Pages 45-84

5. Security

   Pages 85-103

6. Defining Tables

   Pages 105-135

7. Creating Indexes and Database Diagramming

   Pages 137-165

8. Database Backup, Recovery, and Maintenance

   Pages 167-208

9. Working with the Data

   Pages 209-265

10. Building a View

    Pages 267-289

11. Stored Procedures

    Pages 291-311

12. T-SQL Essentials

    Pages 313-350

13. Advanced T-SQL

    Pages 351-371

14. Triggers

    Pages 373-393

15. SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

    Pages 395-414

16. Back Matter

    Pages 415-436

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Assuming neither database nor programming background, Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express for Developers introduces all the fundamental database administration and SQL programming features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, the free relational database management system from Microsoft that provides a major subset of full SQL Server 2005 functionality.

This book is a comprehensive guide that covers installing and configuring SQL Server 2005 Express, creating, backing up, and restoring databases, creating tables, then querying and manipulating them with T-SQL, coding stored procedures and triggers, and using Reporting Services to deliver information to end users. Detailed, clear, and highly readable, this book will make you a competent and confident database administrator and programmer.

• This is the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to SQL Server 2005 Express.
• The book assumes no prior experience with databases, SQL, or programming.
• Youll learn about both database administration and T-SQL programming.
• The book covers SQL Server Management Studio and Reporting Services.

• Microsoft SQL Server
• Reporting Services
• SQL
• SQL Server 2005
• SQL programming
• Transact-SQL
• database administration
• databases
• design
• language
• programming

Robin Dewson has been hooked on programming ever since he bought his first computer, a Sinclair ZX80, in 1980. He has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5 and Visual Basic since version 5. Robin is a consultant mainly in the city of London, where he has been for nearly eight years. He also has been developing a rugby-related website as well as maintaining his own site at Fat-Belly.com.

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