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Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
by Teo Lachev
Ever wished for a tool that can turn enterprise data into meaningful reports that could be shared easily with co-workers, customers, and partners? Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services is the "magic wand" you need to unleash the hidden power of data. The author, who has worked closely with the Reporting Services Development Team, takes you on an insightful tour that provides an authoritative yet independent view of the technology.
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Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
by Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat
Understand how to use the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for data mining by using the tools in Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, which will show you how to use the SQL Server Data Mining Toolset with Office 2007 to mine and analyze data. Explore each of the major data mining algorithms, including naive bayes, decision trees, time series, clustering, association rules, and neural networks.
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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))
by Mike Hotek
Teach yourself how to design and create SQL Server 2008 databases one step at a time. Work at your own pace through the book s practical, skill-building lessons and the hands-on practice files on CD. You ll begin by learning to install and configure SQL Server 2008, design a model database, and work with tables and indexes. Next, you ll learn techniques to manipulate, maintain, and retrieve data. Finally, you ll learn more-advanced techniques, such as using views, functions, and triggers.
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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
by Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Ross LoForte, Steven Wort
SQL Server 2008 represents a sizable jump forward in scalability, performance, and usability for the DBA, developer, and business intelligence (BI) developer. It is no longer unheard of to have 20-terabyte databases running on a SQL Server. SQL Server administration used to just be the job of a database administrator (DBA), but as SQL Server proliferates throughout smaller companies, many developers have begun to act as administrators as well.
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Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (PRO-Developer)
by Leonard Lobel, Andrew J. Brust, Stephen Forte
Written by industry professionals who have been working with SQL Server 2008 since the earliest code, this reference expertly covers the programming fundamentals for SQL Server 2008 with crucial real-world context and extensive code samples.Get the hands-on programming instruction, practical examples, and best practices you need to master the core programmability features in SQL Server 2008.
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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals (PRO-Developer)
by Itzik Bengan
This book walks you through your first steps in T-SQL (also known as Transact-SQL), which is Microsoft SQL Server s dialect of the standard ANSI-SQL language. You ll learn the theory behind T-SQL querying and programming, how to develop T-SQL code to query and modify data, and get an overview of programmable objects. Although this book is intended for beginners, it is not merely a step-by-step book.
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Beginning T-SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
by Paul Turley, Dan Wood
If you have never programmed with T-SQL but have some background programming knowledge and experience, Beginning T-SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2006 will provide you with an overview of SQL Server query operations and tools used with T-SQL, Microsoft's implementation of the SQL database query language. Review basic query language commands and syntax, learn how to design and build applications, and understand how to optimize query performance.
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Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
by Brian Larson
Maximize the Business Intelligence Tools in Microsoft SQL Server 2008Manage, analyze, and distribute enterprise data with help from this expert resource. Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 covers the entire BI lifecycle and explains how to build robust data integration, reporting, and analysis solutions. Real-world examples illustrate all of the powerful BI capabilities of SQL Server 2008.
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Murach's SQL Server 2008 for Developers (Murach: Training & Reference)
by Bryan Syverson, Joel Murach
This book is designed to teach application developers all of the skills they need to use SQL to work with a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. But it's also a great first book for developers who are on the path to becoming a DBA.Unlike most SQL Server 2008 books, this one starts by showing you how to use SQL queries to extract and update the data in a database, because that's what every application developer needs to know first.
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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
by Paul Turley, Thiago Silva, Bryan C. Smith, Ken Withee
Teaches solution architects, designers, and developers how to use Microsoft's reporting platform to create reporting and business intelligence (BI) solutions Updated with new information about holistic BI solutions, comprehensive OLAP/Analysis Services reporting, and complete production deployment scenarios Includes programming examples focused on specific, scenario-based solutions Explains reporting services architecture and business intelligence, teaches the fundamentals of desi
