1. Chapter 1 A Little Background

   1. Introduction to Databases

   2. What Is SQL?

   3. What Is MySQL?

   4. What’s in Store

2. Chapter 2 Creating and Populating a Database

   1. Creating a MySQL Database

   2. Using the mysql Command-Line Tool

   3. MySQL Data Types

   4. Table Creation

   5. Populating and Modifying Tables

   6. When Good Statements Go Bad

   7. The Bank Schema

3. Chapter 3 Query Primer

   1. Query Mechanics

   2. Query Clauses

   3. The select Clause

   4. The from Clause

   5. The where Clause

   6. The group by and having Clauses

   7. The order by Clause

   8. Test Your Knowledge

4. Chapter 4 Filtering

   1. Condition Evaluation

   2. Building a Condition

   3. Condition Types

   4. Null: That Four-Letter Word

   5. Test Your Knowledge

5. Chapter 5 Querying Multiple Tables

   1. What Is a Join?

   2. Joining Three or More Tables

   3. Self-Joins

   4. Equi-Joins Versus Non-Equi-Joins

   5. Join Conditions Versus Filter Conditions

   6. Test Your Knowledge

6. Chapter 6 Working with Sets

   1. Set Theory Primer

   2. Set Theory in Practice

   3. Set Operators

   4. Set Operation Rules

   5. Test Your Knowledge

7. Chapter 7 Data Generation, Conversion, and Manipulation

   1. Working with String Data

   2. Working with Numeric Data

   3. Working with Temporal Data

   4. Conversion Functions

   5. Test Your Knowledge

8. Chapter 8 Grouping and Aggregates

   1. Grouping Concepts

   2. Aggregate Functions

   3. Generating Groups

   4. Group Filter Conditions

   5. Test Your Knowledge

9. Chapter 9 Subqueries

   1. What Is a Subquery?

   2. Subquery Types

   3. Noncorrelated Subqueries

   4. Correlated Subqueries

   5. When to Use Subqueries

   6. Subquery Wrap-up

   7. Test Your Knowledge

10. Chapter 10 Joins Revisited

    1. Outer Joins

    2. Cross Joins

    3. Natural Joins

    4. Test Your Knowledge

11. Chapter 11 Conditional Logic

    1. What Is Conditional Logic?

    2. The Case Expression

    3. Case Expression Examples

    4. Test Your Knowledge

12. Chapter 12 Transactions

    1. Multiuser Databases

    2. What Is a Transaction?

    3. Test Your Knowledge

13. Chapter 13 Indexes and Constraints

    1. Indexes

    2. Constraints

    3. Test Your Knowledge

14. Chapter 14 Views

    1. What Are Views?

    2. Why Use Views?

    3. Updatable Views

    4. Test Your Knowledge

15. Chapter 15 Metadata

    1. Data About Data

    2. Information_Schema

    3. Working with Metadata

    4. Test Your Knowledge

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Pro SQL Server 2008 Administration

PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA

Author Information

David Kurtz

Having studied physics at UCL, David Kurtz was introduced to Oracle in 1989 and spent 6 years in a software house as an Oracle Developer/DBA, working on assurance and insurance software. In 1996, Kurtz joined PeopleSoft in the UK, starting out in support and gradually moving into consultancy over several years. Since there was virtually no internal documentation about how PeopleSoft related to the database, Kurtz began learning it by himself. This led to fixing performance problems in PeopleSoft systems. Soon enough, Kurtz was spending all of his time on performance-related consultancy.

Kurtz left PeopleSoft in 2000 and set up Go-Faster Consultancy Ltd. (http://www.go-faster.co.uk), providing performance and technical consultancy to PeopleSoft users. Since then, Kurtz has learned to apply principles of wait-based tuning to the database and to the PeopleSoft layers atop the database. Kurtz has been a member of the UK Oracle User Group since 1994 and became chairman of the UNIX SIG in 2000. He presents regularly at PeopleSoft and UKOUG conferences and SIG meetings. After a roundtable discussion at a PeopleSoft conference in 2002, Kurtz started the lively PeopleSoft DBA Forum on Yahoo!,

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Introduction

• This fast-paced tutorial gives readers a solid foundation applicable to any database management system
• Ideal for database novices, analysts, managers, technical support professionals, and Web developers
• SQL is at the core of the database products from Microsoft and Oracle, two of the largest software companies in the world
• Microsoft Access is installed on millions of PCs worldwide

About the book

Learn standard database design and management techniques applicable to any type of database. Featuring clear examples using both Microsoft Access and Oracle, Databases: A Beginner’s Guide begins by showing you how to use Structured Query Language (SQL) to create and access database objects. Then, you’ll discover how to implement logical design using normalization, transform the logical design into a physical database, and handle data and process modeling. You’ll also get details on database security, online analytical processing (OLAP), connecting databases to applications, and integrating XML and object content into databases.

Designed for Easy Learning

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In today’s economy, businesses and IT professionals cannot afford to lag behind the latest technologies. Data warehousing is a critical area to the success of many enterprises, and Oracle Warehouse Builder is a powerful tool for building data warehouses. It comes free with the latest version of the Oracle database.

Written in an accessible, informative, and focused manner, this book will teach you to use Oracle Warehouse Builder to build your data warehouse. Covering warehouse design, the import of source data, the ETL cycle and more, this book will have you up and running in next to no time.

This book will walk you through the complete process of planning, building, and deploying a data warehouse using Oracle Warehouse Builder. By the book’s end, you will have built your own data warehouse from scratch.

Starting with the installation of the Oracle Database and Warehouse Builder software, this book then covers the analysis of source data, designing a data warehouse, and extracting, transforming, and loading data from the source system into the data warehouse. You’ll follow the whole process with detailed screenshots of key steps along the way, alongside numerous tips and hints not covered by the official documentation.

What you will learn from this book

• Install the most recent Oracle Database version including Warehouse Builder.
• Learn basic data warehousing concepts and analyze and design your own data warehouse.
• Configure your Oracle database to communicate with a non-Oracle database using Oracle Heterogeneous Services.
• Build, view, and edit a cube and its dimensions, using Warehouse Builder Wizards and the Data Object Editor.
• Discover the underlying star schema relational structure that Warehouse Builder will build to implement your cube and dimensions.
• Recognize what a staging area is, and build a staging table and mapping to load it from SQL Server database tables.
• Learn various operators for use in mappings, for the transformation and flow of data.
• Build and execute mappings to load dimensions and a cube using the Warehouse Builder Mapping Editor and Control Center Manager.

Approach

This easy-to-understand tutorial covers Oracle Warehouse Builder from the ground up, and taps into the author’s wide experience as a software and database engineer. Written in a relaxed style with step-by-step explanations, lots of screenshots are provided throughout the book. There are numerous tips and helpful hints throughout that are not found in the original documentation. By following this book, you can use Oracle Warehouse Builder in the best possible way and maximize your learning potential.

Who this book is written for

This book is a good starting point for database engineers, administrators, and architects who are responsible for data warehouse projects and need to design them and load data into them. If you are someone who wants to learn Oracle Warehouse Builder and expand your knowledge of the tool and data warehousing, this is an ideal book for you. No prior data warehouse or database experience is presumed with all new database and data warehouse technical terms and concepts explained in clear easy-to-understand language.

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Does your database look complicated? Are you finding it difficult to interact with it? Database interaction is a part of the daily routine for all database professionals. Using Oracle Utilities the user can benefit from improved maintenance windows, optimized backups, faster data transfers, and more reliable security and in general can do more with the same time and resources.

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, just learn how to properly use the Oracle Utilities to achieve your goals. This is what this book is about; it covers topics oriented towards data management, session management, batch processing, massive deployment, troubleshooting, and how to make the most out of the frequently used DBA tools to improve your daily work.

Data management is one of the most frequently required tasks; doing a backup is a must-do task for any company. Data management includes several tasks such as data transfers, data uploading and downloading, reorganizing data, and data cloning, among many others. If people learn to use a tool and things appear to go well, few will question if their approach is optimal. Often it is only when maintenance windows start shrinking, due to the amount of data and business availability, that problems with any particular approach get identified. If people get used to the old export/import utilities to perform data management and if it works, they probably will consider the problem solved and will continue to use an obsolete tool. This book explores further possibilities and new tools. It makes the user question if his/her current environment is optimized and teaches how to adopt more optimized data management techniques focusing to the tools and the requirements most frequently seen in modern production environments.

What you will learn from this book

• Improve performance and manageability using the advanced features of direct export/import utilities among different databases
• Optimize your maintenance windows related to data management tasks such as importing data from one database to another using Data Pump and SQL*Loader
• Perform more than just the ETL processes by taking advantage of the external tables feature
• Use Oracle Scheduler to specify maintenance windows, assign priorities, configure job classes and many more features, and take decisions based on the task outcome
• Get acquainted with all the possibilities the Oracle Universal Installer tool offers to make the installation task more efficient
• Execute effective database creations: not just default creations, but comprehensive database creations
• Configure and manage an ASM environment using DBCA
• Improve performance and reduce the impact of recovery manager database backups in production environments
• Increase the security in an Oracle environment, protect the backups, and manage certificates using Oracle Wallet Manager
• Perform installations in batch environments and manage your software updates related to Critical Patch Updates (CPU) or individual patches using OPatch

Chapter 1: Data Pump � Data Pump is a versatile data management tool. This is much more than just an exp/imp upgrade, it allows remapping, dump file size estimation, restartable tasks, network transfers, advanced filtering operations, recovering data after a commit has been issued, and transferring data files among different oracle versions. It includes a PL/SQL API so it can be used as a base to develop data pump-based systems.

Chapter 2: SQL*Loader � SQL*Loader the tool to upload plain text format files to the database; if it is properly tuned you can boost the upload performance. Loading data taking care of the character set will avoid unnecessary headaches and you can optimize your loading window. There are several tips and tricks to load different character sets to the database and load binary data to BLOB fields. This tool can be used to load data on the fly and you will learn how to proactively configure it to get a smooth load.

Chapter 3: External Tables � The external table is a concept oracle introduced in 9i to ease the ETL (Extraction Transformation and Loading) DWH process. An external table can be created to map an external file to the database so you can seamlessly read it as if it was a regular table. You can extend the use of the external tables concept to analyze log files such as the alert.log or the network log files inside the database. The external table concept can be implemented with the data pump drivers; this way you can easily and selectively perform data transfers among databases spanning different Oracle versions.

Chapter 4: Recovery Manager Advanced Techniques - Recovery manager can be optimized to minimize the impact in production environments, it can run faster using parallel techniques. It can be used to clone a database on the same O.S. or transport it over different platforms, or even change the storage method between ASM and conventional file system storage and viceversa.

Chapter 5: Recovery Manager � Recovery manager first appeared back in 8.0, but it was until 9i when it began to gain popularity among DBA’s as the default backup/recover tool. It is simple and elegant and the most frequently used commands are pretty simple and intuitive. This chapter presents several practical database backup and recovery scenarios.

Chapter 6: Session Management � The users are the main reason why a DBA exists. If it were not for the users, there would be no database activity and there would be no problems to be solved. How can you easily spot a row lock contention problem? What should be done to have this problem diagnosed and solved? What does it imply to kill a user session? Managing sessions means you can regulate them by means of the Oracle profiles; this may leave sooner or later snipped sessions; what are those snipped sessions? And what does it imply getting rid of them? This chapter discusses several user session management issues.

Chapter 7: The Oracle Scheduler � The Oracle scheduler is a powerful tool used to schedule tasks in Oracle. This tool can perform simple schedules as well as complex schedules; you need to understand time expressions and the Oracle scheduler architecture to take advantage of this utility.

Chapter 8: Oracle Wallet Manager � Oracle Wallet Manager is the cornerstone and entry point for advanced security management. You can manage certificates and certificate requests, you can store identity certificates and retrieve them from a central location, or you can use the registry in a Windows environment. You can hide passwords without OS Authentication mechanisms by storing the user password inside the wallet.

Chapter 9: Security � Most people worry about having a valid backup that can be used to effectively recover data, but not all of them are concerned about the backup security; if a backup can be used to recover data, this doesn’t actually mean the data will be recovered at the same site where it was taken from. OWM is a key tool to have the backup encrypted, so sensitive data can be secured not only from the availability point of view, but also from the confidentiality point of view. Security has to do also with identifying who the real user is; this can be achieved with the enterprise user. This chapter explains step by step how to set up an environment with enterprise identity management using the Enterprise Security Manager.

Chapter 10: Database Configuration Assistant � Creating a database is one of the first tasks the user performs when installing Oracle, but this tool goes far beyond the simple task of creating the database; it can be used to manage templates, create a database in silent mode, and configure services in an RAC environment. Configuring database options and enabling the Enterprise Manager DB Control can be done here. DBCA is also the easy way to start up and configure an Automatic Storage Management (ASM) environment.

Chapter 11: Oracle Universal Installer � Installing Oracle is more than just a next ? next button pressing activity, OUI is a tool to manage software. Most people care about database backup, as well as configuration file backup, but what about the Oracle installer repository? This set of files is most often underestimated unless a hardware failure make the DBA understand what Oracle software maintenance is. OUI can perform silent and batch installations; it can also perform installations from a central software depot accessible through the Web.

Chapter 12: Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant � Most DBAs use EM as the basic DBA administration tool; it is a very intuitive database management console. Most people depend on it to easily perform most of the administration and operation tasks that otherwise would be time consuming through character console mode. But what happens when it, somehow is not available, either by a change in the network topology or a firewall that restricts access to the managing port? Then the user requires to have the console reconfigured to bring it back into operation. EMCA is the character mode tool used to perform this task.

Chapter 13: OPatch � Patching the RDBMS is a required task to have the software up to date. When a patchset is to be applied OUI is used, but when a single patch or a CPU is to be applied OPatch must be used. You will learn how to perform a basic patch application task, list the patch inventory, find out if a patch has already been applied, maintain the software and the software inventory, and learn how and when to perform a patch application while the database is up and running.

Approach

This book is written using a practical approach that guides you through different practical scenarios. It provides a brief introduction to the topics; this way you can quickly get to know the main features, start being productive with the tool, and grow with it at a fast pace. You won’t have to spend too much time getting to the basics of the tool and can immediately progress towards the advanced tips.

Using this practical approach you don’t have to spend valuable time trying to decipher arid reference manuals; you can easily set up the practical scenarios, and try to follow up the presentations. The images used in the book come from real scenarios, and the output is always explained so you can easily interpret what is being displayed on the screen after issuing the commands.

Who this book is written for

This book is aimed at all Oracle professionals who interact with the database through the data and database utilities and are willing to optimize their interaction with it.

Entry-level users will get acquainted with the best practices to get their job done in a timely and efficient manner. Advanced users will find useful tips and How-Tos that will help them focus on getting the most out of the database utilities and fine-tune batch processing.

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The hot new data analysis trends involve business intelligence and analytics. The technology that supports business intelligence and analytics better than anything else is today’s multidimensional OLAP technology � and there is none better than Oracle Essbase! Although storing data in a cube and developing analytical applications leaves many people grasping for understanding, especially if their experience is with relational databases, embracing OLAP technology will pay big dividends in the long run.

It’s easy to develop multidimensional analytic OLAP solutions when you have got this Oracle Essbase book to hand. It is a step-by-step guide to timeless Essbase fundamentals, which takes you from a basic software installation through to launching a fully functioning Essbase database cube.

This book will guide you through every stage of installing Oracle’s Essbase software on your analytic server, the Essbase Administration Services client, and the client software itself. You will learn, in easy-to-understand language, the concepts of multidimensional database technology as you are taken step by step through building an actual Essbase application complete with database, database calculation scripts, and database report scripts.

Once you have your system built and functional, the next course of instruction covers the available automation features included in your Essbase software package and how to use them. These chapters alone are worth the price of admission!
As an IT professional you quite rightly have a desire to understand multidimensional OLAP � this book gives you that understanding. Should you wish to embark on an exciting career as an Essbase developer/administrator, this book provides a fantastic foundation from which to grow.

Best of all, this book is filled with the tips and tricks that you can only get from many years and countless hours spent playing with Essbase. You get them all in just the time it takes you to complete this book.

What you will learn from this book

• Dig into the concept of multidimensional database cubes and explore the similarities to and differences from traditional relational databases
• Build effective database outlines including dimensions and members
• Extract data from source systems like SQL Sources or Input Data Files and load them into Essbase cubes
• Create fast and efficient database calculation scripts for your Essbase applications
• Extract data into reports or downstream systems by writing professional database report scripts
• Make your work easier by automating Essbase processes like cube building or running calc and report scripts
• Generate quality dynamic ad hoc spreadsheets and reports by using Microsoft’s Excel Add-In effectively
• Perform required and optional maintenance and performance-tuning tasks just like an experienced Essbase administrator

Approach

This book uses a practical step-by-step approach with the next chapter always building on the knowledge foundation created by the previous chapter.

Understanding and really grasping the multidimensional concept is difficult enough without a lot of confusing jargon thrown in. This book speaks to the reader in plain English with plenty of easy-to-follow examples. You will create, build, and maintain data for a fictional automobile company.

Who this book is written for

This book is primarily for the IT professional who has a good understanding of IT principles and processes but is a multidimensional OLAP novice. Experienced OLAP professionals will also gain insight from this book.

Simply put, if you are in the IT field and wish to gain a functional level of knowledge in the world of Oracle Essbase, whether it be for a developer role or a PM or BA role, this is the book you need.

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Einführungen in MySQL gibt es viele. Wer aber gr??ere MySQL-Server betreut, die verl?sslich laufen müssen, egal was Programmierer oder Benutzer auf sie loslassen, der braucht weiter reichende Informationen. In High Performance MySQL beschreiben sechs anerkannte Experten mit langj?hriger Erfahrung auf gro?en Systemen alle Stellschrauben, an denen MySQL-Admins drehen k?nnen, um Sicherheit, Performance, Datenintegrit?t und Robustheit zu erh?hen.

Von Profis für Profis Hier geht es nicht um kleine Webauftritte mit Datenbankanbindung! Lernen Sie stattdessen fortgeschrittene Techniken kennen, mit denen Sie MySQLs Potenzial voll ausreizen k?nnen — um gro?e, skalierbare Systeme zu entwerfen, zu optimieren und zu sichern. Behandelt werden Benchmarking, Indizes, Storage-Engines, Replikationen, Lastverteilung und Hochverfügbarkeit, Backups, Sicherheit… und zu jedem Aspekt die richtigen Werkzeuge, mit denen sich Ihre Ziele am besten realisieren lassen.

Praxiserprobt muss es sein Der eine ist MySQL-Guru bei Yahoo!, der andere Angestellter Nr. 25 bei MySQL AB und dort nacheinander für das MySQL-Manual, die Trainingskurse und die Entwicklung des Supports zust?ndig, wieder ein anderer war bei MySQL AB im High-Performance-Team — die Autoren dieses Buchs wissen, wovon sie sprechen. Graue Theorie finden Sie woanders, hier geht es um bew?hrte Techniken aus der Praxis.

Ein Klassiker wird runderneuert Die erste Auflage von “High Performance MySQL” wurde hoch gelobt und hat schon unz?hligen Lesern wertvolle Dienste geleistet. Nun war es an der Zeit, dieses anerkannte Handbuch einmal komplett zu aktualisieren, um nützliches Referenzmaterial zu erweitern, neue Features der Versionen MySQL 5.0 und 5.1 zu erg?nzen und zahlreiche Themen wie die Optimierung der Storage-Engine InnoDB zu vertiefen.

“Im Meer der MySQL-Literatur findet man so viel konzentriertes Know-how, das deutlich über Selbstverst?ndlichkeiten hinausgeht, nicht allzu h?ufig.” Linux-Magazin, November 2008, zur engl. Originalausgabe

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IBM’s DB2 Express Edition is one of the most capable of the free database platforms available in today’s marketplace. In Beginning DB2, author Grant Allen gets you started using DB2 Express Edition for web sites, desktop applications, and more. The author covers the basics of DB2 for developers and database administrators, shows you how to manage data in both XML and relational form, and includes numerous code examples so that you are never in doubt as to how things work. In this book, you’ll find

A friendly introduction to DB2 Express Edition, an industrial–strength, relational database from IBM

Dozens of examples so that you are never in doubt as to how things work

Coverage of important language interfaces, such as from PHP, Ruby, C#, Python, and more

Aimed at developers who want a robust database to back their applications

What you’ll learn Install and manage DB2 Express Edition on Linux and Windows. Manage IML data seamlessly using IBM’s pureXML storage engine. Connect DB2 databases to web and desktop applications via languages such as PHP, Ruby, C#, Python, and more. Protect your data with a sound backup and restore strategy. Design and manage database schemas and security within the database. Know when and why to upgrade to more powerful editions of DB2.
Who is this book for?

Application developers, including web application developers, looking for a robust, zero–cost database to back their applications. Database administrators looking to get up to speed quickly with DB2.
About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

Along with MySQL’s popularity has come a flood of questions about solving specific problems, and that’s where this Cookbook is essential. Designed as a handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, the book offers dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out examples for programmers of all levels who don’t have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems from scratch.

The new edition covers MySQL 5.0 and its powerful new features, as well as the older but still widespread MySQL 4.1. One major emphasis of this book is how to use SQL to formulate queries for particular kinds of questions, using the mysql client program included in MySQL distributions. The other major emphasis is how to write programs that interact with the MySQL server through an API. You’ll find plenty of examples using several language APIs in multiple scenarios and situations, including the use of Ruby to retrieve and format data. There are also many new examples for using Perl, PHP, Python, and Java as well.

Other recipes in the book teach you to:

— Access data from multiple tables at the same time — Use SQL to select, sort, and summarize rows — Find matches or mismatches between rows in two tables — Determine intervals between dates or times, including age calculations — Store images into MySQL and retrieve them for display in web pages — Get LOAD DATA to read your data files properly or find which values in the file are invalid — Use strict mode to prevent entry of bad data into your database — Copy a table or a database to another server — Generate sequence numbers to use as unique row identifiers — Create database events that execute according to a schedule — And a lot more

MySQL Cookbook doesn’t attempt to develop full-fledged, complex applications. Instead, it’s intended to assist you in developing applications yourself by helping you get past problems that have you stumped.

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The Definitive Guide to SQLite
by Mike Owens | 464 pages | PDF |English | ISBN: 1590596730 | May 25, 2006 | 9.7 MB
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Traditional relational databases and embedded databases both have shortcomings that can leave a developer perplexed. So for many people, the solution resides in SQLite, an open source embeddable database with an amazingly small footprint (less than 250 kilobytes). SQLite packs a powerful array of features and can handle databases as large as 2 terabytes. It offers a flexible set of datatypes and the ability to perform transactions, and it is supported by languages like C, PHP, Perl, and Python. And because SQLite’s databases are completely file based, privileges are granted at the operating system level, allowing for easy and fast user management.

The Definitive Guide to SQLite is the first book to devote complete coverage to the latest version of this powerful database. It offers you a thorough overview of SQLite capabilities and APIs, while remaining cognizant of newcomers who may be making their first foray into a database environment with SQLite. This book serves as both a first-time tutorial and future reference guide.

You’ll learn about SQLite extensions available for C, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl.
The book thoroughly covers SQLite internals to help you take full advantage of its features while minimally impacting resource consumption.
Author Mike Owens is the original creator of Pysqlite, the popular Python extension for SQLite.

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Apress | ISBN 1590596730 | 2006 Year | 464 Pages | PDF | English | 5.7 Mb

The Definitive Guide to SQLite is the first book to devote complete coverage to the latest version of this powerful database.

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Pro SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
Apress | December 19, 2007 | ISBN:1590598970 | 548 pages | PDF | 11 Mb

SQL Server Integration Services is groundbreaking. It exists for both the DBA and the developer, as well as that new role SSIS has created between the two–the data artisan.

Pro SQL Server 2005 Integration Services contains everything you could ever hope to know about this exciting new development from Microsoft: developer insight, Microsoft group manager–level access, personal experience of using the technology in the real-world, and fine-grained analysis. If you want to rapidly gain knowledge and context from your data, Microsoft’s latest and greatest interpretation of Enterprise Application Integration, SQL Server Integration Services, is for you. As part of the extensive SQL Server suite, Integration Services is a more serious and expandable interpretation of the integration paradigm than previously available. At once both simple to use yet incredibly complex, it goes far beyond being a reimagining and reengineering of DTS, and it’s all presented in a familiar Visual Studio context. It’s Agile, it’s service-oriented, it’s everything to everyone.

Written for the developer, the DBA, and the data artisan, Pro SQL Server 2005 Integration Services will show you how to develop and deploy enterprise SSIS solutions in multibillion-item environments. It’s everything SSIS, explained for everyone!

What you’ll learn

Understand how to develop and deploy SSIS solutions that will perform in multibillion-item environments from an author who has been there and done it.

Build bespoke custom components tailored to your project’s exact requirements.

Create perfomant and scalable solutions with an eye to future requirements and upgrades.

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone working with SQL Server who has an interest in the Integration Services technology. Deep experience of SQL Server 2005 is not expected, however, you should be comfortable with fundamental techniques.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

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Pro SQL Server 2008 Replication is for MS database developers and administrators who want to learn about the different types of replication and those best suited to SQL Server 2008. This book will also cover advanced topics like replication with heterogeneous databases, backup and recovery of replicated databases, database mirroring with replication, log shipping with replication, troubleshooting, plus optimization and tuning. Tools like tablediff, SQLCMD, DTA, SQL Profiler, and Replication Monitor will be discussed to demonstrate the different techniques used in monitoring, administering, and troubleshooting replication.

? Examines the detailed configuration and the internal workings of the different replication types using real–life scenarios

? Covers replication with database mirroring and troubleshooting

? Discusses replication administration using different tools

What you’ll learn

? Configure hierarchical replication: snapshot, transactional and merge, and heterogeneous replication using real–life scenarios.

? Gain insight into the internal workings of the different replication types.

? Master the usage of different tools like tablediff, SQLCMD, DTA, and Replication Monitor in administering replication.

? Perform administration tasks such as backup and recovery, and manage replication with other high–availability techniques like database mirroring and log shipping.

? Conduct optimization and tuning of replicated databases.

? Develop troubleshooting techniques.

Who is this book for?

This book is a comprehensive guide for experienced users of SQL Server as well as new users. It also aims at familiarizing the current users of SQL Server 2005 with the new features of replication should they upgrade to SQL Server 2008. This book will delve into the basics of replication like the publisher–subscriber model, the different replication types (such as snapshot, transactional, merge, and heterogeneous), the corresponding architecture, implementation, and administration. Database administration tasks like backup and recovery, managing replication with high–availability techniques like database mirroring, log shipping with replication, optimization of replicated databases, and troubleshooting techniques will also be discussed. This book will benefit primarily novice and intermediate users by introducing replication and the different processes and then building on the basics to develop and address the advanced features of replication. This is a must–have companion book that will help you in developing, administering and mastering the intricacies of replication.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics provides everything you need to know to develop sophisticated and visually appealing sales and marketing dashboards using SQL Server 2008 and to integrate those dashboards with SharePoint, PerformancePoint, and other key Microsoft technologies.

The book begins by addressing the many misconceptions that surround the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and giving a brief overview of the business intelligence (BI) and reporting tools that can be combined on the Microsoft platform to help you generate the results that you need.

The focus of the book is to help you implement a successful business intelligence project of your own. The text discusses many of the required project planning components, provides overviews and examples associated with Microsoft’s BI tools, and gives detailed examples of successful dashboard implementations.

What you’ll learn

The key functional and technical components of a successful report/dashboard implementation

What Microsoft tools are provided both within and without SQL Server 2008 to help you achieve an integrated solution

How to determine whether your performance indicators are correct for your business and how to roll them out to your organization in an effective way

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SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Apress | ISBN: 1590599802 | July 23, 2008 | 872 pages | PDF | 4.8MB

Product Description

SQL Server 2008 Transact–SQL Recipes: A Problem–Solution Approach is an example–based guide to the Transact–SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server 2008. Learn to create databases, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Author Joseph Sack takes common Transact–SQL tasks and breaks them down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on.

* Focused on solutions: Look up what you need to do. Learn how to do it. Do it.

* Current: Newly updated for SQL Server 2008.

* Comprehensive: Covers 30 different Transact–SQL problem domains.

What you’ll learn

* Create databases, tables, and indexes.

* Query and manipulate data.

* Store and manage XML inside the database.

* Move business logic into the database.

* Encrypt data and capture changes for compliance purposes.

* Implement Full–Text Search.

* Interface with Service Broker.

* And more!

Who is this book for?

Developers who use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as their back–end database. Database administrators who create, manage, and secure those databases.

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