Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. SQL Server 2005 is Microsoft's next-generation data management and analysis software designed to deliver increased scalability, availability, and security to enterprise data and analytical applications while making them easier to create, deploy, and manage. Filled with practical solutions and real-world examples, this resource includes full details on: Enterprise data management capabilities, including security and clustering Powerful developer tools -- T-SQL, .NET CLR, XML, ADO.NET 2.0 Business Intelligence features, such as Integration Services, data warehousing, and reports

This is the definitive resource for every network administrator, consultant, and architect who needs to maximize availability, scalability, and performance in Windows server environments.

Drawing on two decades of Windows server experience, Jeffrey Shapiro and Marcin Policht have written the most realistic, comprehensive, and independent Windows high availability guide ever published. One step at, a time, they help you plan, implement, and manage clustering, load balancing, fault tolerance, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and much more. Along the way, they address crucial high availability topics that are virtually ignored by most books, such as disaster recovery, performance monitoring, and operations management.

Shapiro and Policht offer a clear, concise roadmap for keeping Windows servers running 24x7 and delivering on even the most challenging service-level agreements. They provide real-world case studies and easy-to-use instructions designed to help readers make better decisions more rapidly.

Coverage includes

Building the foundations for a highly available Active Directory and network architecture

Selecting and integrating high-performance hardware, storage, and networks

Installing and configuring Windows Clustering Services for both scale-out and failover

Leveraging the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA)

Delivering high-performance, high availability file- and print-server solutions

Using clustering to maximize SQL Server and Exchange Server availability

Restoring failed servers: best practices and step-by-step techniques for recovering from downtime or disaster

Deploying Network Load Balancing (NLB) IIS andapplication servers

Administering Windows Server 2003 high-performance systems--including performance monitoring and alerts with Microsoft Operations Manager

Avoiding the pitfalls associated with Windows high availability solutions
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A Developer's Resource for Building and Implementing a Visual Basic.NET Strategy

Create powerful and complex applications using this hard-core and practical resource. You'll learn how to take advantage of Visual Basic.NET's powerful new object-oriented features and understand the core differences between VB and VB.NET. Divided into seven easy-to-navigate chapters, "Visual Basic.NET Developer's Headstart is designed to deliver expert information, tips, and advice for migrating and implementing Visual Basic.NET applications.

Key topics include:

• Visual Basic.NET overview
• Comparing Visual Basic.NET to Visual Basic 6, Delphi, Java, and C#
• Migrating existing code to Visual Basic.NET
• Understanding the Common Language Runtime and the Common Language Specification

Unveil the power of Visual Basic.NET. Discover how to build robust applications.

Important coverage includes:

• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Encapsulation
• Arrays
• Strings
• Win Forms
• Web Forms
• Web Services
• Serialization
• Legacy code integration