Expert SQL Server 2005 Development [Paperback]

While building on the skills you already have, Expert SQL Server 2005 Development will help you become an even better developer by focusing on best practices and demonstrating how to design highperformance, maintainable database applications.

This book starts by reintroducing the database as a integral part of the software development ecosystem. You'll learn how to think about SQL Server development as you would any other software development. For example, there's no reason you can't architect and test database routines just as you would architect and test application code. And nothing should stop you from implementing the types of exception handling and security rules that are considered so important in other tiers, even if they are usually ignored in the database.

You'll learn how to apply development methodologies like these to produce highquality encryption and SQLCLR solutions. Furthermore, you'll discover how to exploit a variety of tools that SQL Server offers in order to properly use dynamic SQL and to improve concurrency in your applications. Finally, you'll become well versed in implementing spatial and temporal database designs, as well as approaching graph and hierarchy problems.

Databases are software. Ive based the second half of a software development career that began in 1978 on this simple idea. If youve found this book, chances are youre willing to at least entertain the possibility that databases and their attendant programmability are worthy of the same rigor and process as the rest of an application. Good for you! Its a great pleasure for me to join you on this jo- ney, however briefly, via this foreword. There is a good possibility that youve grown as skeptical as I have of the conventional wisdom that treats the back end as an afterthought in the design and budgeting process. Youre now seeking actionable insights into building or improving a SQL Server 2005 del£3