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| Surviving Changes to Columns |
| One of the most common causes of brittle code is a failure to program defensively against subsequent changes to the columns of the underlying data tables. These changes can take the form of adding columns, or changing the definition of existing columns, for example, their data type or size. |
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| Surviving Changes to the Signature of a Stored Procedure |
| The lesson here is clear: stored procedure calls with explicitly named parameters are more robust; they continue to work correctly even when the signature of the stored procedure changes, or they give explicit errors instead of silently returning incorrect results. |
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| SQL Azure Data Access |
| SQL Azure allows you to connect to the cloud database only using the TDS protocol with limited support, as described in the previous section. But because the TDS protocol is supported by most of the SQL Server client APIs, all the features supported by SQL Azure work with existing client APIs. |
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| SQL Azure Architecture |
| SQL Azure is a scalable and highly available database utility service in the cloud. Like all other Windows Azure services, it runs in Microsoft data centers around the world. The data center infrastructure provides the SQL Azure service with load balancing, failover and replication capabilities |
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| SQL Server : Transactions and Exceptions |
| No discussion of exceptions in SQL Server can be complete without mentioning the interplay between transactions and exceptions. This is a fairly simple area, but one that often confuses developers who don't quite understand the role that transactions play. |
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| SQL Server : Exception Handling |
| Exception handling in T-SQL should be thought of as no different from exception handling in any other language. A generally accepted programming practice is to handle exceptions at the lowest possible scope, in order to keep them from interacting with higher levels of the application. |
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| How Exceptions Work in SQL Server |
| The first step in understanding how to handle errors and exceptions in SQL Server is to take a look at how the server itself deals with error conditions. Unlike many other programming languages, SQL Server has an exception model that involves different behaviors for different types of exceptions |
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| Surviving Changes to the Definition of a Primary or Unique Key |
| Changes to the keys in your tables should, hopefully, be rare, but they can cause trouble to the unwary when they happen. In a broader context, the defensive programmer should always fully document and test any assumptions about the underlying uniqueness of the column data. |
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| Multi-Server Administration : Policy-Based Management |
| Policy-Based Management is a new feature in SQL Server 2008 that allows you to define and implement policies across the organization. Policy-Based Management was initially called the Declarative Management Framework but was changed before the final release of SQL Server 2008 |
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| Queries in SQL |
| SQL is an acronym that stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is an international standard, and all fully relational database management systems include it. Using SQL, it is possible to create a database, enter data into it, and retrieve information from it. Any information that can be retrieved from a database can be retrieved by means of an SQL query. |
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| SQL Server 2008 : Roles |
| Like Windows groups, SQL Server provides two roles, server- and database-level roles into which logins and users can be added. Server-level roles are fixed roles that have a serverwide permission scope. |
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| Full-Text Indexing in SQL Server 2008 |
| Full-text indexing is a feature of SQL Server 2008 that allows you to carry out sophisticated searches of text-based data called a full-text search. A full-text search is different from a normal search of data through a normal index because it enables you to use linguistic-based searches. |
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| sp_configure and SQL Server Management Studio |
| SQL Server Management Studio is the central tool for managing SQL Server, and you will need to be very familiar with it for the exam. Fortunately, most of the exam objectives require the use of this tool so you will get plenty of practice with it . |
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| Binding Application Data to the UI objects in Silverlight |
| The Binding markup extension or the FrameworkElement.SetBinding() method can be used to bind properties on instances of application data types to dependency properties defined on any type inheriting from FrameworkElement. The application data type properties are called the source properties for the binding, and the dependency properties are called the target properties. |
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| Management Tools in SQL Server 2008 |
| SQL Server 2008 ships with a set of nine tools for managing SQL Server instances and interacting with data: OSQL, SQLCMD, Tablediff, Bulk Copy Program (BCP), SQLDiag, Resource Governor, SQL Server Configuration Manager, SSMS, and Database Mail. |
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| Editions of SQL Server 2008 |
SQL Server 2008 is available in a variety of editions. Each edition is tailored to meet an assortment of needs based on the features required for various applications within an organization.Table 2-1 on page16 lists the available editions of SQL Server. |
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| Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 |
You can upgrade from SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 using either an in-place or side-by-side upgrade. An in-place upgrade allows you to install SQL Server 2008 over the top of an existing SQL Server 2000 or 2005 instance. |
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| Clustered Indexes in SQL Server 2008 |
The column(s) defined for the clustered index are referred to as the clustering key. A clustered index is special because it causes SQL Server to order the data in the table according to the clustering key. Because a table cannot be sorted more than one way, you can define only one clustered index on a table. |
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| Installing SQL Server 2008 |
Now that we have covered the basic background for SQL Server instances, you will install your first SQL Server Database Engine instance along with Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Integration Services, and all of the tools that ship with SQL Server. |
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| LINQ Projection Queries and Alternatives in WCF Services |
The presenter at my local .NET user group was writing a LINQ query during his session last month when I asked him, "How did we ever live without LINQ?" Since it was introduced in Visual Studio 2008, LINQ has made such a difference in how we code in the Microsoft .NET Framework. In combination with the many new language features that were introduced in Visual Basic and C#, it's a consistent problem solver for querying in-memory objects and data sources. |
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