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SQL Server Security $49.99 Addresses SQL Server vulnerabilities and provides security solutions. Covers installation, administration, and programming–plus security issues such as authentication, encryption, intrusion detection, and more. Written for IT professionals administering or programming any SQL Server-based application–includes coverage of SQL Server 7, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server (Yukon). |
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Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 $35.99 Anyone who interacts with today’s modern databases needs to know SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard language for generating, manipulating, and retrieving database information. In recent years, the dramatic rise in the popularity of relational databases and multi-user databases has fueled a healthy demand for application developers and others who can write SQL code efficiently and correctly. If you’re new to databases, or need a SQL refresher, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 is an ideal step-by-step introduction to this database query tool, with everything you need for programming SQL using Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005-one of the most powerful and popular database engines used today. Plenty of books explain database theory. This guide lets you apply the theory as you learn SQL. You don’t need prior database knowledge, or even prior computer knowledge. Based on a popular university-level course designed by authors Sikha Saha Bagui and Richard Walsh Earp, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 starts with very simple SQL concepts, and slowly builds into more complex query development. Every topic, concept, and idea comes with examples of code and output, along with exercises to help you gain proficiency in SQL and SQL Server 2005. With this book, you’ll learn: Beginning SQL commands, such as how and where to type an SQL query, and how to create, populate, alter and delete tables How to customize SQL Server 2005′s settings and about SQL Server 2005′s functions About joins, a common database mechanism for combining tables Query development, the use of views and other derived structures, and simple set operations Subqueries, aggregate functions and correlated subqueries, as well as indexes and constraints that can be added to tables in SQL Server 2005 Whether you’re an undergraduate computer science or MIS student, a self-learner who has access to the new Microsoft database, or work for your company’s IT department, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 will get you up to speed on SQL in no time. |
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SQL Injection Attacks and Defense $59.95 Winner of the Best Book Bejtlich Read in 2009 award! “SQL injection is probably the number one problem for any server-side application, and this book is unequaled in its coverage.” Richard Bejtlich, http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/ SQL injection represents one of the most dangerous and well-known, yet misunderstood, security vulnerabilities on the Internet, largely because there is no central repository of information to turn to for help. This is the only book devoted exclusively to this long-established but recently growing threat. It includes all the currently known information about these attacks and significant insight from its contributing team of SQL injection experts. What is SQL injection?-Understand what it is and how it works Find, confirm, and automate SQL injection discovery Discover tips and tricks for finding SQL injection within the code Create exploits using SQL injection Design to avoid the dangers of these attacks |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 $27.99 This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm (SQL Server 2005 Public Beta Edition) will prepare database administrators for upcoming changes in SQL Server 2005. Obtain the skills necessary to run SQL Server 2005 from the experts at Microsoft Gold Partner. Get a head-start to understanding the new concepts and features of SQL Server 2005 from the database administrator's perspective, including: SQL Server 2005 Architecture Tool Sets Scalability, Reliability and High Availability Chapter Performance Tuning Replication .NET CLR Integration DTS and Business Intelligence Minimize the surprises in SQL Server 2005 with the help of Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm (SQL Server 2005 Public Beta Edition) . |
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Accelerated SQL Server 2008 $52.99 One of the first books on SQL Server 2008 available, this title enables SQL Server database professionals to make the leap to the latest release on Microsoft's flagship database management system quickly. |
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Intel Core i7 860 Processor 2.80 GHz 8 MB LGA1156 CPU I7-860BOX $323.99 Intel Core i7 Quad-core I7-860 2.8GHz Processor 2.80 GHz – 2.50 GT/s QPI – 1 MB L2 – 8 MB L3 – Socket H – Retail… |
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BusinessObjects XI (Release 2): The Complete Reference $34.99 This book is a must read for anyone deploying BusinessObjects. It covers everything from planning your upgrade to the latest release, to best practices in universe design, and powerful report creation that maximizes business insight. This book covers the most frequently used features for the full BI suite, in one comprehensive book. There’s in depth coverage of Designer, security via the Central M… |
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Windows Server 2008 Unleashed $37.85 Windows Server 2008 Unleashed covers the planning, design, prototype testing, implementation, migration, administration, and support of a Windows 2008 and Active Directory environment, based on more than three and a half years of early adopter experience in full production environments. This book addresses not only what is new with Windows 2008 compared to previous versions of the Windows Server p… |
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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-431): Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Implementation and Maintenance (Pro-Certification) $10.02 Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-431âand on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what youâve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practices. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.Maximize … |
Response Time Analysis for SQL Performance Tuning
The most current approach for improving applications and the performance of SQL is by helping DBAs monitor their database with the most important data: the ability to understand what causes end users to experience wait time. Also referred to as wait time analysis, it allows IT teams to align their SQL performance tuning efforts with service level delivery for end users.
Explore some of the benefits of SQL performance tuning.
Response time methods measure the entire time it takes for an action to be complete instead of monitoring server health statistics and then making a guess about how these things affect the overall performance health. The best implementations break down the time into discrete and individually measurable steps, and identify exactly which steps in which operations cause application delays. Response time is key to making decisions on how to improve a database since it’s key function is to get an action done as fast as possible.
Conventional vs. Differences
Health measures and execution ratios are the main focus of normal SQL performance tools. The problem with this however is that even the most refined of these cannot offer an insight into then user experience or show where the issue actually began. Simply seeing that an application took place thousands of times doesn’t say anything about whether it was involved with, or was the cause of a delay in application response time.
Understanding the difference between Response Time Analysis and Conventional Analysis
- Measure response time for an action to take place, from receipt of request to beginning of response.
- Measure each SQL query separately, so the response time effects of a specific SQL can be isolated and evaluated. When the traditional total response time was measured in the past, the information was not as useful.
- Identify the discrete internal steps (Wait Types/Events) that a SQL query takes as it is processed. Treating the instance as a black-box without seeing where the time is consumed internally does not help problem solving.
See how SQL server tuning can help.
How to Have Success with SQL Server Tuning on the First Try
SQL Server tuning using response time analysis enables DBAs to find the exact location of performance issues and address them immediately. Now preventative measures can be taken before the end user is even affected.
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Beginners Guide To Sql Server Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005 $39.99 Sql Server Integration Services with the acronym SSIS is a comprehensive ETL tool that made its debut with SQL Server 2005. It is a tool tightly integrated with the Visual Studio 2005 having all the functionalities that its forerunner DTS (Data Transformation Services) had in SQL Server 2000. This does not mean that it is just an improvement over DTS but a product which is totally different with a vastly improved interface; an extensible architecture; an enlarged tool set; ease of integration with other SQL Server Tools such as Analysis Services; capable of supporting connectivity with third party databases and bringing into a central location many database management tasks. |
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Beginning Database Design Solutions $44.99 Beginning Database Design SolutionsDatabases play a critical role in the business operations of most organizations; they're the central repository for critical information on products, customers, suppliers, sales, and a host of other essential information. It's no wonder that the majority of all business computing involves database applications. With so much at stake, you'd expect most IT professionals would have a firm understanding of good database design. But in fact most learn through a painful process of trial and error, with predictably poor results.This book provides readers with proven methods and tools for designing efficient, reliable, and secure databases. Author Rod Stephens explains how a database should be organized to ensure data integrity without sacrificing performance. He shares procedures for designing robust, flexible, and secure databases that provide a solid foundation for all of your database applications. The methods and techniques in this book can be applied to any database environment, including Oracle®, Microsoft Access®, SQL Server®, and MySQL®. You'll learn the basics of good database design and ultimately discover how to design a real-world database.?What you will learn from this bookHow to identify database requirements that meet users' needsWays to build data models using a variety of modeling techniques, including entity-relational models, user-interface models, and semantic object modelsTips for understanding the different types of databases, including relational databases, flat files, spreadsheets, XML and object databasesHow to refine and tune the design to improve database performanceTechniques for understanding the relationship between good application design and database designMethods for designing flexible and robust databases that can adapt to business change and growthWays to design for ease of |