A Book by Developers

We, the authors and coauthors of this book, are first and foremost developers just like you. All of us have built careers in the pursuit of writing code that powers our applications, especially database applications. We’ve committed ourselves to building quality solutions that work with data and deliver that data in the most compelling ways to our businesses, partners, and customers. And, we love SQL Server!

Like SQL Server 2008 itself, this book builds on a previous edition written for SQL Server 2005, and it is the cumulative result of many years of work put in by many authors. We were fortunate enough to have a product manager from the Microsoft SQL Server product team contribute to the chapter on security. Our chapters ...

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