Product Description: Data warehouses have evolved to cope with the huge volumes of data flowing through the workplace by separating the data used for reporting and decision making from the operational systems. The purpose of the data warehouse is simply to store the raw data, and in combination with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, this data can be transformed into accessible information that reflects the real factors affecting the enterprise...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many VB developers choose SQL Server 2000, a robust enterprise-level database system, to provide the data layer in their applications. The introduction of Microsoft's .NET Framework brings us ADO.NET, the latest means of connecting to that data source...read more

Product Description: If you want to write better stored procedures, this is the book for you. This book will tackle real-world problems faced by developers when working with stored procedures, showing how to solve these problems, avoid the common pitfalls and work around them, to produce faster, more robust stored procedures...read more

Product Description: Stored procedures are compiled T-SQL statements that reside on the database. They are the cornerstones of successful data manipulation, and data-handling operations of every complexity make use of them. This book is an in-depth guide to a key area of database development...read more

Provides instructions on using SQL server in a production environment.