Title: Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Author: Steve Cook / Gareth Jones / Stuart Kent / Alan Cameron Wills
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0321398203
Pub-Date: 2007-05-24

Book Description

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)–languages geared to specific vertical or horizontal areas of interest–are generating growing excitement from software engineers and architects. DSLs bring new agility to the creation and evolution of software, allowing selected design aspects to be expressed in terms much closer to the system requirements than standard program code, significantly reducing development costs in large-scale projects and product lines. In this breakthrough book, four leading experts reveal exactly how DSLs work, and how you can make the most of them in your environment.

With Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools, you’ll begin by mastering DSL concepts and techniques that apply to all platforms. Next, you’ll discover how to create and use DSLs with the powerful new Microsoft DSL Tools–a toolset designed by this book’s authors. Learn how the DSL Tools integrate into Visual Studio–and how to define DSLs and generate Visual Designers using Visual Studio’s built-in modeling technology.

In-depth coverage includes

• Determining whether DSLs will work for you

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TITLE : MCITP Administrator: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Optimization and Maintenance (Exam 70-444) Study Guide (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Victor Isakov (Author), Marilyn Miller-White (Author), J. Steven Jones (Author), Andy Warren (Author)
PUBLISHER : Sybex publisher
ISBN : 0470127457
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : July 10, 2007
LANGUAGE : English

- Covering Microsoft’s brand-new SQL 2005 administrator exam, this
study guide walks readers through setting up, maintaining, and
troubleshooting database solutions
- Reviews key topics such as defining high-availability solutions,
automating administrative tasks, defining security solutions, monitoring
and troubleshooting the database server, and designing and executing
deployments
- Candidates must first complete the requirements for the MCTS exam
and have three or more years dedicated to database work; then they may
earn their MCITP by passing two exams.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470127457/
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Title: Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration (Wrox Professional Guides)
Author: Brian Knight / Ketan Patel / Wayne Snyder / Jean-Claude Armand / Ross LoForte / Brad McGehee / Steven Wort / Joe Salvatore / Haidong Ji
Publisher: Wrox
ISBN: 0470055200
Pub-Date: 2006-12-06

Book Description
SQL Server 2005 is the largest leap forward for SQL Server since its inception. With this update comes new features that will challenge even the most experienced SQL Server DBAs. Written by a team of some of the best SQL Server experts in the industry, this comprehensive tutorial shows you how to navigate the vastly changed landscape of the SQL Server administration.

Drawing on their own first-hand experiences to offer you best practices, unique tips and tricks, and useful workarounds, the authors help you handle even the most difficult SQL Server 2005 administration issues, including blocking and locking. You’ll learn how to fine-tune queries you’ve already written, automate redundant monitoring and maintenance tasks, and use hidden tools so that you can quickly get over the learning curve of how to configure and administer SQL Server 2005.

What you will learn from this book

How to use some of the more advanced concepts…

Title: Professional SQL Server 2005 CLR Programming: with Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Aggregates and Types
Author: Derek Comingore / Douglas Hinson
Publisher: Wrox
ISBN: 0470054034
Pub-Date: 2006-12-11

Book Description
SQL Server 2005 offers the capability to write code in a .NET language that can be compiled and run inside SQL Server. CLR Integration, or SQL CLR, lets you create stored procedures, user-defined types, triggers, table valued functions, and aggregates using a .NET managed language. You can read and write to resources outside of SQL Server and enjoy a tighter integration with XML, web services, and simple file and logging capabilities.

Here’s the reference you’ll want on your desk as you develop SQL CLR solutions. It helps you decide whether to use SQL CLR, how to lock down security, and learn from real examples. If you want to develop stored procedures or other objects in .NET for SQL Server 2005, this book offers exactly what you need.

What you will learn from this book

The concepts and architecture of SQL CLR
Uses of .NET namespaces in SQL Server programming tasks
How to develop and benchmark routines in T-SQL and .NET to determine when CLR-based solutions are advantageous