Cũng như không có cuốn sách có thể bao quát mọi khía cạnh của SQLServer ở độ sâu lớn, không ai có thể biết mọi thứ về sản phẩm này. Khi tôi muốn bí quyết để bắt đầu với LINQ, dịch vụ môi giới, hoặc MDX, hoặc bất kỳ của hàng chục các chủ đề khác mà cuốn sách của tôi không bao gồm, Paul của cuốn sách là nơi tôi sẽ bắt đầu giáo dục của tôi. | Welcome to SQL Server 2008. At the Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta 2009 SQL keynote I walked through the major SQL Server 2008 new features and asked the question Cool or Kool-Aid I ve worked with SQL Server since version and I m excited about this newest iteration because it reflects a natural evolution and maturing of the product. I believe it s the best release of SQL Server so far. There s no Kool-Aid here it s all way cool. SQL Server is a vast product and I don t know any sane person who claims to know all of it in depth. In fact SQL Server is used by so many different types of professions to accomplish so many different types of tasks it can be difficult to concisely define it but here goes SQL Server 2008 Microsoft s enterprise client-server relational database product with T-SQL as its primary programming language. However SQL Server is more than just a relational database engine Connecting to SQL Server is made easy with a host of data connectivity options and a variety of technologies to import and export data such as Tabular Data Stream TDS XML Integration Services bulk copy SQL Native Connectivity OLE DB ODBC and distributed query with Distributed Transaction Coordinator to name a few. The engine works well with data XML spatial words within text and blob data . SQL Server has a full suite of OLAP BI components and tools to work with multidimensional data analyze data build cubes and mine data. IN THIS CHAPTER Why choose SQL Server Understanding the core of SQL Server the Relational Database Engine Approaching SQL Server Making sense of SQL Server s many services and components What s New in SQL Server 2008 3 Part I Laying the Foundation SQL Server includes a complete reporting solution that serves up great-looking reports enables users to create reports and tracks who saw what when. SQL Server exposes an impressive level of diagnostic detail with Performance Studio SQL Trace Profiler and Database Management
