Table of Contents

Part I: Basic Concepts and Installation
Chapter 1. Relational Database Systems: An Introduction
Chapter 2. Planning the Installation and Installing SQL Server
Chapter 3. SQL Server Management Studio
Part II: Transact-SQL Language
Chapter 4. SQL Components
Chapter 5. Data Definition Language
Chapter 6. Queries
Chapter 7. Modification of a Table's Contents
Chapter 8. Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Chapter 9. System Catalog
Chapter 10. Indices
Chapter 11. Views
Chapter 12. Security System of the Database Engine
Chapter 13. Concurrency Control
Chapter 14. Triggers
Part III: SQL Server: System Administration
Chapter 15. System Environment of the Database Engine
Chapter 16. Backup, Recovery, and System Availability
Chapter 17. Automating System Administration Tasks
Chapter 18. Data Replication
Chapter 19. Query Optimizer
Chapter 20. Performance Tuning
Part IV: SQL Server and Business Intelligence
Chapter 21. Business Intelligence: An Introduction
Chapter 22. SQL Server Analysis Services
Chapter 23. Business Intelligence and Transact-SQL
Chapter 24. SQL Server Reporting Services
Chapter 25. Optimizing Techniques for Relational Online Analytical Processing
Part V: Beyond Relational Data
Chapter 26. SQL Server and XML
Chapter 27. Spatial Data
Chapter 28. SQL Server Full-Text Search
Index

About the Author

Dusan Petkovic (Germany) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Polytechnic in Rosenheim, Germany. He frequently contributes to SQL Server Magazine and has published 8 other computer books in Germany for Addison Wesley and McGraw-Hill.