MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-442): Designing and Optimizing Data Access by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005

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EXAM PREP GUIDE

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCITP Exam 70-442—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make...

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Overview

EXAM PREP GUIDE

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCITP Exam 70-442—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

  • Create data access solutions, connections, and models
  • Write database queries, specialized queries, and XQuery expressions
  • Programmatically administer a SQL Server service
  • Design code that validates user data and handles errors
  • Choose appropriate transaction isolation levels and optimize locking
  • Tune query and application performance

PRACTICE TESTS

Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780735623835
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press
  • Publication date: 4/25/2007
  • Series: Self-Paced Training Kits Ser.
  • Edition description: REV
  • Pages: 544
  • Product dimensions: 7.38 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Sara Morgan, MCSD, MCDBA, specializes in Web-based applications and the author of Building Intelligent .NET Applications: Agents, Data Mining, Rule-Based Systems, and Speech Processing.

Tobias Thernstrom has 13+ years' experience with SQL Server, serves as program manager on the SQL Engine Platform Team at Microsoft, and helped develop several Microsoft certifications for SQL Server.

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Table of Contents

DedicationExam 70-442: PRO: Designing and Optimizing Data Access by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005About the AuthorsIntroduction Chapter 1: Designing a Data Access StrategyChapter 2: Designing Database QueriesChapter 3: Designing a Cursor and Caching StrategyChapter 4: Advanced Query TopicsChapter 5: Data Integrity and Error Handling in SQL Server 2005Chapter 6: Designing Transactions and Transaction IsolationChapter 7: Optimizing SQL Server 2005 PerformanceChapter 8: Improving Database Application PerformanceCase Scenario AnswersReferencesSQL Server 2005 Architecture and InternalsGlossaryAdditional SQL Server Resources for AdministratorsAdditional SQL Server Resources for DevelopersAdditional Resources for Developers: Advanced Topics and Best PracticesAdditional Windows (R2) Resources for AdministratorsSystem Requirements

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