Demonstrates SQL Server 2000's advanced features, including updating databases and retrieving data with XML documents and working with XML schemas and update grams. (view table of contents)

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)