- ISBN13: 978-1-4302-7213-7
- ISBN10: 1-4302-7213-9
- 430 pp.
- Published Jan 2010
- Print Book Price: $49.99
- eBook Price: $34.99
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Expert SQL Server 2008 Development
Expert SQL Server 2008 Development is aimed at SQL Server developers ready to move beyond Books Online. Author and experienced developer Alastair Aitchison shows you how to think about SQL Server development as if it were any other type of development. You’ll learn to manage testing in SQL Server and to properly deal with errors and exceptions. The book also covers critical, database-centric topics such as managing concurrency and securing your data and code through proper privileges and authorization.
Alastair places focus on sound development and architectural practices that will help you become a better developer, capable of designing high-performance, robust, maintainable database applications. He shows you how to apply notable features in SQL Server such as encryption and support for hierarchical data. If developing for SQL Server is what puts the bread on your table, you can do no better than to read this book and to assimilate the expert-level practices that it provides.
- Promotes expert-level practices
- Leads to high performance, scalable code
- Improves productivity, getting you home in time for dinner
What you’ll learn
- Productively handle errors and exceptions.
- Exploit features for managing spatial and temporal data.
- Manage tree-structured data using the new, hierarchid type.
- Write code that easily survives high concurrency.
- Program defensively.
- Create proper and reusable test environments for your code.
- Secure code and data through encryption and proper application of privilege.
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Adam Machanic
ADAM MACHANIC is an independent database software consultant, writer, and speaker based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has implemented SQL Server solutions for a variety of high-availability OLTP and large-scale data warehouse applications, and also specializes in .NET data access layer performance optimization. Adam has written for SQL Server Professional and TechNet magazines, serves as the SQL Server 2005 Expert for SearchSQLServer.com, and has contributed to several books on SQL Server, including Pro SQL Server 2005 (Apress, 2005). He regularly speaks at user groups, community events, and conferences on a variety of SQL Server and .NET-related topics. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP).
When not sitting at the keyboard pounding out code or code-related prose, Adam tries to spend a bit of time with his wife, Kate, and daughter, Aura, both of whom seem to believe that there is more to life than SQL.
Adam blogs at http://www.sqlblog.com, and can be contacted directly at amachanic@datamanipulation.net.
Alastair Aitchison
Alastair Aitchison has over eight years of experience as a management information consultant, specializing in the design and deployment of online reporting systems. For the last three years, he has been employed as a reporting and analysis manager at Aviva, the world’s fifth largest insurance group. In this role, he has championed the use of spatial data in corporate applications including the geographic analysis of risk patterns, plotting the success of regional marketing campaigns, and understanding the impact of major weather incidents. Alastair is a Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor and has delivered numerous training courses to individuals and small groups on a range of software packages.