Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization will teach you effective strategies for designing proper databases. It covers everything from how to gather business requirements to logical data modeling and normalization. It then shows you how to implement your design on SQL Server 2005.
The authors also describe how to optimize and secure access to this data, covering indexing strategies, SQL design and optimization, and strategies for increased scalability to support large numbers of concurrent users. They provide in-depth advice on optimal code distribution in SQL Server 2005 applications, in the wake of innovations to be able to use .NET code in the database itself. This essential book will ensure that projects have a well-designed database and secure, optimized data access strategies right from the start.
| Ch. 1 | Introduction to database concepts | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Data modeling | 33 |
| Ch. 3 | Conceptual data modeling | 71 |
| Ch. 4 | The normalization process | 121 |
| Ch. 5 | Implementing the base table structures | 181 |
| Ch. 6 | Protecting the integrity of your data | 273 |
| Ch. 7 | Securing access to the data | 335 |
| Ch. 8 | Table structures and indexing | 395 |
| Ch. 9 | Coding for concurrency | 439 |
| Ch. 10 | Code-level architectural decisions | 489 |
| Ch. 11 | Database interoperability | 541 |
| App. A | Codd's 12 rules for an RDBMS | 573 |
| App. B | Datatype reference | 581 |
Anonymous
Posted Tue Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2006
This is the first book I have read from Louis Davidson and Kevin Kline. The book is excellent. Louis's approach to helping you understand the concepts are displayed well with code examples. You will read a passage and then see an example to really enforce the principle. The examples support the concepts and using both together helped me out a great deal. The chapters on Securing Acceass to the data I found to be really helpful. This architecure chapter goes in much needed detail as so many books just glance over the different Oracle tuning. What the processes are used for and how they can be tuned is well documented. The coding for concurrency chapter helped me understand how to configure and best to take its advantage its fullest level for a given situation. At the end of the RDBMS chapter author has a section on specific tuning and this section should be required reading for all DBAs and developers. Something else I got from the book are methods for writing SQL and tuning it. The SQL that the author puts together looks so easy and natural for him to write. He is a master of SQL*Plus and that is a side benefit to reading the book. The techniques I picked up from reading examples will help me just as much or more so than content of the book. This book is an excellent addition to my database collection of books and I highly recommend reading it.
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Posted Fri Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2006
This book completely demystifies a number of SQL tuning concepts. This book provides a superb overview of the various performance topics, and then drills down deep enough into the concepts to give you the insights necessary to tackle thorny performance problems with multiple causes. This is a very valuable book for SQL server 2005--The techniques described in this book are effective and well thought out. Even if performance optimization is the main goal, this book is well worth reading for sql code and administration. The book delivers in-depth information on indexing, locking, the optimizer and many other topics in a very readable format. Ideal for those with some knowledge of SQL Server who want to dig deeper.
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Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization will teach you effective strategies for designing proper databases. It covers everything from how to gather business requirements to logical data modeling and normalization. It then shows you how to implement your design on SQL Server 2005.
The authors also describe how to optimize and secure access to this data, covering indexing strategies, SQL design and optimization, and strategies for increased scalability to support ...