Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Acknowledgments

You know you’ve been at this thing called writing a long time when people ask how many books you’ve written and you just have no idea. (This is number 61 for those who may be wondering.) For me, it’s always been about the craft of writing. I love writing, and I love challenging projects most of all. Two of the most challenging books I ever wrote were SQL Server 7.0 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, published in 1999, and SQL Server 2000 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, published in 2000. Writing SQL Server 2005 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant was no less challenging.

The challenge in writing a day-to-day administrator’s guide to SQL Server is that there’s so much to cover. When all was said and done, I ended up with a book ...