 See larger picture | A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
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Bob Beauchemin, Niels Berglund, and Dan Sullivan
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Featured Customer Reviews  Not for the impatient,
March 28, 2006
I bought this book because of it's rave reviews.
For developers, brevity is key and this book is too verbose for my liking - focusing on XML technology for the most part. The book did not have a building block example mentality - rather it's academic in nature.
Far better is "SQL SERVER 2005 New Features" by Michael Otey. It's 1/4 the size and much more valuable in getting you started with Broker and all the other new features - quickly.  Mediocre at best,
January 06, 2006 Good and Bad,
June 18, 2005 Good head-start on a major new release of SQL Server,
January 12, 2005
The book is very readable with good context and background. It makes a great guide to using the SQL Server 2005 previews available to MSDN subscribers.The best there will be until the revised version next year,
September 23, 2004 Databases are at the core of most software projects these days and there is a fair amount of competition between software vendors for a bigger share of a lucrative market. However, it would be fair to say that only DBAs really know what their database servers are capable of and maybe only half of them really everything that their software can do. One of the biggest arguments for this First Look At SQL Server 2005 book then is as a prospectus for all the developer-related features and functional nooks and crannies that the next incarnation of SQL Server (codename 'Yukon') will contain.
Split over seventeen chapters and two appendices, this very thorough book covers the ins and outs of four main topics - SQL Server as a CLR host, XML, enhancements to the existing features of SQL Server 2000 and notification services - that should be of interest to developers looking forward to a world of Whidbey and Yukon. Topics such as security and XQuery aren't exhaustive - they'd each take up a book on their own - but all the main points within the context of this book are covered. Indeed, with the exception of Chapter 14, which covers a feature since removed from SQL Server 2005 but is well written anyway, each chapter is clean, concise and packed with useful information.
The author team of three have produced a book that at times goes as deep into detail as Don Box's Essential .NET does while treating 'lighter' topics such as Microsoft's new enhancements to T-SQL, in no less detail but in an easier to read style. The main focus of this book are the new opportunities for developers to utilize Yukon but administrators can also take a lot away from this book having been made aware of areas that developers may focus on. In all, this is an excellent preview book on developing with SQL Server 2005 in mind and should be kept around until the revised version comes out for the actual release of this new database.
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