Crash Course in Microsoft SQL Server 2000
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Crash Course in SQL Server 2000 is now available on full-motion CD-ROMs with narration. Learn the fun way! Multimedia training is far more effective than textbooks. It simulates the real-world environment for excellent retention. You can replay the video and audio instructional units as many times as you need to.

Learn Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with this easy-to-follow CD-ROM collection from Silico-Magnetic Intelligence. Whether you are learning Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for the first time or adding to your professional skills set, you will find that SMI’s Practical Training via CD-ROM™ contains thorough, outstanding, well-prepared content that is second to none:

3 CD-ROMs with Over 7 Hours of Instruction
The instructor is Kalman Toth, MCDBA, Senior SQL Server Architect. By mastering one CD-ROM a day, you can become a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 programmer in 3 days. You can also proceed at your own pace. The introductory CD-ROM course is focused on practical solutions to real-world database, client and server SQL programming and administration problems. Full-motion screen video and rich audio make the subject matter understandable, and reusable as reference material.

Audience
Software engineers, IT managers and technical project managers who design, develop, implement and manage Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (or 7.0 which is very similar) based applications. MCSE & MCDBA candidates, VB, Java, C++, ASP.NET and database developers who need to know more about applying SQL Server 2000 in business environment.

Prerequisites
SQL Server 2000 students must have a solid working knowledge of the Windows environment, and programming experience in any computer language. This is the best Microsoft SQL Server 2000 multimedia crash training currently available in North America, or anywhere in the World.

Objectives
The CD-ROM based crash course will teach students to setup tables, populate them with data, change data in tables, delete rows from tables. Write SQL queries, use transact-SQL built-in function. Create indexes, stored procedures, views and triggers. The CD course shows and tells applying live screen image video and audio, how to install and configure an SQL Server, create and manage databases and database devices both in Enterpriser Manager and with scripts in Query Analyzer, backup and restore SQL databases, import and export data, understand olap datawarehouse basics and implement automated tasks. (See full list below.)

About the Trainer
Kalman Toth, MCDBA, is an IT professional with over 14 years of database administration and development experience with SQL server 4.2, 6.5, 7.0 and 2000. In addition Kalman Toth has substantial Sybase and Oracle experience. His clients include: Citibank, Bank of Sweden, Deloitte-Touche, Swiss Bank, Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and IBM. He holds an M.Phil. degree in Computing Science from Columbia University, where he taught computer science.

Free Bonus: SQL Server 2000 Bible
The book is divided into 6 parts: Preparing to Develop with SQL Server; Building and Managing Databases with SQL Server; Managing Data with SQL Server; Implementing Business Rules with SQL Server; Monitoring and Performance Tuning with SQL Server; and Advanced Data Transfer and Analysis with SQL Server. Comprehensive coverage: This Bible covers both beginning and advanced topics. Topics covered include: installing and configuring SQL Server; using SQL server's development tools; securing databases; retrieving data; SQL Server transactions; working with XML; understanding transact SQL language extensions; developing stored procedures; tuning queries and indexes; and developing for English query. Sample database applications: The book builds on sample database applications to demonstrate topics/concepts. Sidebars: So as readers can focus on practical information, the author is using sidebars throughout to explain the best practices associated with the product and highlight material. The CD-ROM contains the sample database applications and code examples in the book; and SQL Server utilities.

CD-ROM Features
SMI's CD-based training is like training one-on-one with an expert -- full motion video allows you to see the steps, hear the explanations, and perform the critical tasks. This is complete training solution for passing a certification exam, excelling on an interview and performing well in the workplace. It is convenient, giving you the freedom to learn at your own pace, wherever and whenever it suits your schedule. CD-ROM is easy to use, with streamlined interface featuring one-click navigation. 100% guaranteed.

 
 

Multimedia Crash Course in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 on 3 full-motion screen image video and rich audio CD-ROMs $145.

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Crash Course in
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
on 3 CD-ROMs


CD-ROM 1 - Crash Course in SQL Server 2000 Day 1( 145 min)
1. Introduction and Welcome Notes
2. Relational Database Systems
3. Relational Database Design
4. The SQL Language
5. Entity-Relationship Modeling
6. Microsoft SQL Server 2000
7. SQL Server 2000 Program Group
8. The Query Analyzer
9. The Enterprise Manager
10. The pubs and Northwind Sample Databases
11. Writing simple SQL Queries
12. Managing Simple Database Objects
13. Transact-SQL Identifiers and Comments
14. Transact-SQL Keywords and Data Types
15. Numeric, Date and String Functions
16. DDL - Data Definition Language


CD-ROM 2 - Crash Course in SQL Server 2000 Day 2 (148 min)
1. SELECT Statement with the WHERE Clause
2. SELECT with Subqueries
3. GROUP BY Clause and Aggregate Functions
4. Joining Tables with Primary and Foreign Keys
5. Correlated Subqueries and Temporary Tables
6. Populating Tables with INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE
7. Transact-SQL IF and WHILE Statements
8. Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
9. Creating Views
10. Table Indexing and Query Optimization
11. Permissioning GRANT, REVOKE and DENY
12. AFTER Triggers and INSTEAD OF Triggers
13. Transactions, Blocking and Deadlocks
14. bcp, osql, isql and odbcping Utilities
15. Database Backup and Restore
16. DTS, Data Transformation Services


CD-ROM 3 - Crash Course in SQL Server 2000 Day 3 (143 min)
1. SQL Server Agent, Setting up Jobs
2. Defining Alerts for Application Errors
3. Troubleshooting, sp_who, sp_monitor
4. SQL Server 2000 and Windows Logs
5. DBCC Utility for Database Maintenance
6. Performance Tuning SQL Server 2000
7. Application Performance Tuning
8. SQL Server 2000 Profiler
9. Data Replication Across Servers
10. XML Support in SQL Server 2000
11. Datawarehousing, Datamarts
12. OLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP and HOLAP
13. Microsoft Analysis Services
14. Designing OLAP CUBEs
15. SQL Server 2000 FullText Search
16. Success Secrets to SQL Server 2000


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