Inside SQL Server 2005 Tools by Dima Sonkin, Kami LeMonds, Michael Raheem, Thierry DВїHers

Inside SQL Server 2005 Tools



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Inside SQL Server 2005 Tools Dima Sonkin, Kami LeMonds, Michael Raheem, Thierry DВїHers
Language: English
Page: 816
Format: chm
ISBN: 0321397967, 9780321397966
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Direct from Microsoft Insiders: the Complete Hands-On Guide to

SQL Server 2005’s Powerful Tools!

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2005’s high-powered management tools can dramatically

improve DBA productivity and effectiveness. Now there’s a comprehensive guide

to SQL Server 2005’s toolset, straight from the Microsoft team that created it.

This book covers the entire toolset in unprecedented depth, guides database

professionals in choosing the right tools, and shows them how to use various

tools collectively to solve real-world problems. The authors present “how-to”

solutions and never-before-published tips for SQL Server 2005 installation,

upgrades, configuration, authoring, schema design, development, deployment,

optimization, troubleshooting, and more. Coverage includes

 

  Understanding how SQL Server 2005 tools differ from their predecessors

  Leveraging the new Business Intelligence Development Studio and

Management Studio to accomplish dozens of common tasks

  Improving security by reducing the “surface area” you expose

  Executing queries with the new Query Editor and SQLCMD query tools

  Optimizing with the revamped SQL Server Profiler and Database

Engine Tuning Advisor

  Scheduling maintenance tasks with the SQL Server Agent

  Monitoring with the Activity Monitor, SQL Server Agent, and other tools

  Moving data efficiently and reliably with Integration Services

  Using SQL Server’s new e-mail tool, Database Mail

  Managing replication in complex distributed environments

  Mastering SQL Server’s Analysis Services’ OLAP and Data Mining tools

  Using Notification Services 2.0, Reporting Services, and more

  Extending functionality using underlying APIs and the included

CD-ROM’s sample code.

 

MICHAEL RAHEEM is the senior product manager of the Microsoft SQL Server

team and led the design and implementation of several SQL Server tools, such

as SQL Server Management Studio, Database Mail, Upgrade Advisors, and

Surface Area Configuration. He currently leads the SQL Server enterprise

marketing efforts including high availability, scalability, and performance.

DIMA SONKIN is development lead in the SQL Server Tools group responsible

for SQL Server Agent, SMO, DMO, SQL Profiler, Database Engine Tuning Advisor,

Database Mail, SQLMail, SqlCmd, and OSQL.

THIERRY D’HERS is the lead program manager on Microsoft’s SQL BI Analysis

Services team and has spent five years designing and specifying Analysis

Services tools.

KAMI LEMONDS is the documentation manager for Microsoft’s SQL Server User

Education team and contributed to the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit.

 

CD-ROM contains all sample code from the book and corresponding

Visual Studio project files.

 

 

Contents

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii

Chapter 1 Inside the Fundamentals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 2 Inside the Installation and Upgrade Tools. . . . . . . 23

Chapter 3 Inside the Configuration Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter 4 Inside Management and Administration Tools . . 129

Chapter 5 Inside Data Authoring Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Chapter 6 Inside SQLCMD Query Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Chapter 7 Inside Tuning and Optimization Tools . . . . . . . . . 237

Chapter 8 Inside Scheduling Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Chapter 9 Inside Monitoring Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Chapter 10 Inside Email Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Chapter 11 Inside Programming Object Models . . . . . . . . . . 357

Chapter 12 Inside Replication Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Chapter 13 Inside Analysis Services OLAP Tools . . . . . . . . . 429

Chapter 14 Inside Analysis Services Data

Mining Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Chapter 15 Inside Notification Services Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Chapter 16 Inside Integration Services Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Chapter 17 Inside the Reporting Services Tools . . . . . . . . . . 679

Appendix A Sample KPI Client Code— Retrieving and

Exposing Your First KPI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Appendix B KPI Utilities—Code for Parsing Display

Folders and Getting Image Indexes . . . . . . . . . . 713

Appendix C KPI Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

Appendix D Complete List of Data Mining Stored

Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

 

About the Author

Sunil Agarwal is a Program Manager in the SQL Server Storage Engine Group.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Sunil had worked in companies like DEC, Sybase, BMC

Software, and DigitalThink, with a primary focus on core database engine technology

and related applications. Sunil holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from IIT,

Kanpur, India, and has done graduate work in Computer Science at the University

of Rhode Island and at Brown University

 

Thierry D’Hers is a Lead Program Manager in the SQL BI Analysis Services

team. Thierry has over 12 years experience in the BI industry. For the last five

years, Thierry has been responsible for designing and specifying many of the functionalities

of the Analysis Services tools. Beyond participating in the product

design, Thierry is also a technical evangelist for the SQL BI product line. In this

role, Thierry spends a large amount of time educating customers and partners on

the various benefits of the SQL BI components.

Before joining Microsoft, Thierry spent seven years at Hyperion where he

occupied various positions. He began as a consultant, and then moved into technical

Sales for Hyperion France. Next he was asked to join Hyperion Corp as a Product

Manager, and then he became the Group Product Manager on Hyperion OLAP

(renamed Hyperion MBA), Hyperion Business Rules, and a few other Hyperion

products initiatives.

 

Phillip Garding is a Senior Program Manager in the SQL Server Database Replication

team. Phillip has driven the design for the administration and monitoring

tools for database replication in SQL Server versions 7.0, 2000, and 2005 and helped

define the overall user interface experience in SQL Server 2005. In addition, he has

contributed more broadly to developing the wizard and error messaging designs at

Microsoft. Phillip is a 17-year veteran at Microsoft, and he worked on Microsoft

Access and Microsoft Word prior to joining the SQL Server team in 1995.

 

Diane Larsen is a technical writing lead on the SQL Server User Education team.

She has written documentation and articles about several SQL Server 2000 and

SQL Server 2005 features, including Notification Services, DTS, Upgrade Advisor,

and SQL Server Surface Area Configuration. She worked with the incredible Notification

Services development team for over four years, and enjoyed (almost) every

minute of it. The times she didn’t enjoy it were due to lack of sleep.

 

Kami LeMonds is a Documentation Manager for the SQL Server User Education

team at Microsoft and manages a team of technical writers. In the past eight years

at Microsoft, she has been a technical writer and lead, primarily on SQL Server

Management Tools. In addition, she has contributed to the Answers from

Microsoft column in SQL Server Magazine, as well as the SQL Server 2000

Resource Kit. Kami recently completed a Technology Management MBA from the

University of Washington.

 

Michael Raheem is a Senior Product Manager in the SQL Server Marketing team

at Microsoft. Michael currently leads the SQL Server enterprise marketing efforts,

including High Availability, Scalability, Performance, and SQL Server Always On

Technologies. Prior to joining the marketing team, he led the design and implementation

of several SQL Server 2005 tools such as Management Studio, Upgrade

Advisor, Database Mail, and Surface Area Configuration. Michael has spoken at

several conferences, including TechEd, TechReady, PASS, and SQL Connections.

Additionally, he has contributed to the Answers from Microsoft column in SQL

Server Magazine and has over 13 years of experience in designing and developing

solutions with Microsoft SQL Server.

 

Dima Sonkin is a Software Design Engineer Lead at Microsoft Corporation

working in SQL Server Management Tools product group. He has been with

Microsoft for over seven years. His development team owns such components as

SQL Server Agent, SMO/DMO, SQL Profiler, Database Tuning Advisor, Database

Mail/SQLMail, SqlCmd/OSQL, and many others. Dima has been through

entire shipping cycles of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. He has filed over

a dozen patents in database management tools space. He holds multiple Microsoft

certifications, including MCSD and MCDBA. He has spoken at several professional

conferences. Prior to Microsoft, Dima held the position of Staff Software

Engineer with IBM Corporation. His formal education includes a master’s degree

in Engineering from St. Petersburg Technical University and an MSEE from the

University of South Florida.

 

Brian Welcker is Group Program Manager for SQL Server Reporting Services,

part of the SQL Server product group. His team is focused on delivering the premier

managed and ad-hoc enterprise reporting platform as part of SQL Server

2005, as well as delivering developer reporting components for Visual Studio

2005. A 10-year Microsoft veteran, Brian is one of the founding members of the

Reporting Services team; he previously worked as the lead program manager

for SQL Server Meta Data Services, as well as a technical evangelist in Microsoft’s

Developer Relations Group. He joined Microsoft after working for a company in his

home town of Raleigh, North Carolina building software for hospitals and doctors’

offices. Brian resides in Seattle, Washington with his wife and two children.

 

Marianne Willumsen is a documentation manager on the SQL Server user education

team. Before she joined the management team, she was the lead writer for the

Integration Services user education team. In that role, she developed the table of

contents and wrote reams of Integration Services documentation for SQL Server

Books Online, as well as many samples. Writing is what she does, and prior to joining

the SQL Server user education team she was a writer on the Exchange SDK team.

 

 

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