Product Description: Book + Content Update Program SQL Server 2016 High Availability Unleashed provides start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server’s powerful high availability (HA) solutions for your traditional on-premise databases, cloud-based databases (Azure or AWS), hybrid databases (on-premise coupled with the cloud), and your emerging Big Data solutions...read more

Product Description: This is the industry’s most comprehensive and useful guide to SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. It presents start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server’s core database server and management capabilities, plus complete introductions to Integration, Reporting, and Analysis Services, application development, and much more...read more

Product Description: Intended for system architects and database administrators, this guide describes the various hardware and software options within the Microsoft family of products that address high availability, and defines a formal design approach for matching a company's computer system requirements to the appropriate availability solution...read more

MicrosoftA (R) SQL Server 2000 Unleashed offers a variety of topics for system and database administrators to help them learn new features of the product and to solve problems they face on a daily basis. It shows them how to build upon their working knowledge of the product and take their experience and knowledge to a higher level. This title includes topics such as: SQL Server and XML; high availability; SQL Server architecture; performance and tuning; SQL Server and the Web; scalability issues; integration with BackOffice and other MicrosoftA (R) products; enterprise issues; replication; Data Transformation Services (DTS); security; and analysis services. This book is written by authors who offer the benefits of their experiences to help readers understand and solve problems such as performance issues, implementing critical backup and recovery strategies, and code efficient applications that work across a variety of platforms and systems. (view table of contents)

Product Description: ADO.NET is the data access model built into the .NET Framework. It replaces the old (and largely successful) ADO used in almost all Visual Basic and ASP applications built over the last few years. ADO.NET enables an application to communicate with any OLE database source (including Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft Access, and even text files)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)