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Store See larger picture Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Complete Reference by Jeffrey Shapiro - McGraw-Hill Osborne Media List Price: $49.99 Price at Amazon.com: $34.99 (Save 30%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Shipping rates and policies Average Customer Review: Based on 2 reviews. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 551610 Product Description SQL Server 2005 is Microsoft's next-generation data management and analysis software designed to deliver increased scalability, availability, and security to enterprise data and analytical applications while making them easier to create, deploy, and manage. Filled with practical solutions and real-world examples, this resource includes full details on: Enterprise data management capabilities, including security and clustering Powerful developer tools -- T-SQL, .NET CLR, XML, ADO.NET 2.0 Business Intelligence features, such as Integration Services, data warehousing, and reports Featured Customer Reviews Useless, July 31, 2008 This book is only good if you know nothing about RDBMs in general. The first half of the book covers mainly theory, only touching on how to acutally perform the operations you're most likely looking to learn. Even when explaining how to do something, you're guided through the wizards and GUIs instead of learning something useful. If you're interested in learning stored procedures, look somewhere else. The 20 pages that cover this topic will give you barely enough details for you to write your own. Reference? yes. Complete? I don't think so. Introduction/Reference, April 16, 2007 In general it is an overview book with lists of references. Explanations are short. Some critical notes based on author experience is a big plus of this book. Security and advanced topics (distributed architecture) covered in more details than I expected from overview book. It may be the only book you need in case you love to look for details out of the BOL. You might also be interested in these items... Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Stored Procedure Programming in T-SQL & .NET Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services 2005 Microsoft SQL Server 2005: A Beginner''s Guide (Beginner's Guide (Osborne Mcgraw Hill)) Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (Pro-Administrator's Pocket Consultant)