By Amirthalingam Prasanna, Grant Fritchey, Phil Factor, Robert Sheldon and Robyn Page
As a developer, DBA or manager, you may not want to know all about XML, replication or Reporting Services, but if you next project uses one or more of these technologies heavily then the best place to start is from the 'jungle roof'.
Crib Sheets aim to give you the broad view. Each one tackles a key area of database development, administration or deployment and provides both a management view and a technical view of that topic. Each starts with the business reasons that will underpin a certain technology requirement and then moves on to the methods available to implement them.
A Crib Sheet is not about code solutions – see the Simple-Talk Workbench series for that – but about providing a good understanding of all the core concepts and terminology that surround a given technology or discipline. The aim is to cover each topic in just enough detail to perform a given function, no more.
This book contains a collection of Simple-Talk Crib Sheets published between 2006 and 2008. It focuses on SQL Server topics, but also covers two .NET issues that are relevant to all SQL Server developers and DBAs:
- SQL Server Security
- SQL Server XML
- SQL Server Reporting Services
- SQL Server Data Warehousing
- SQL Server Database Backups
- SQL Server Performance
- SQL Server Replication
- Entity Framework
- .NET Performance
