Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express: Database Solutions with Visual Basic Express & Visual Web Developer Express

Description

SQL Server 2005 Express is the database component of Microsoft's Express Suite of products. It is free of charge, inherits many (non-enterprise) features from SQL Server 2005, and comes complete with development and administration tools. As such, it is an ideal database for developers and administrators to use in prototype/evaluation projects. It is also a powerful development platform for database applications on nonprofit websites, e-commerce sites, and in small offices and departments.

Author Rick Dobson provides all of the installation, configuration, administration, and development techniques that you need to build applications quickly. He focuses on techniques that are easy to learn and transparent in their real-world translations. Topics include the SSMS-based query tool and T-SQL programming, and Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer, both with SSE, to build Windows Forms applications and to develop ASP.NET web applications.

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Rick Dobson
Beginning SQL Server
2005 Express Database
Applications
with Visual Basic Express and
Visual Web Developer Express
From Novice to Professional
Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express Database Applications
with Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express From Novice to Professional
Copyright © 2006 by Rick Dobson
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Contents at a Glance
About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
PART 1 ■ ■ ■ Working with SQL Server Express
■CHAPTER 1 Getting Started with SQL Server Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
■CHAPTER 2 Graphical and Command-Line Query Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
■CHAPTER 3 Exploring, Creating, and Recovering Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
■CHAPTER 4 Data Types, Tables, and Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
■CHAPTER 5 Creating Queries from a Single Database Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
■CHAPTER 6 Querying Multiple Database Objects and Manipulating Result Sets . . . 191
■CHAPTER 7 Leveraging Database Objects That Encapsulate T-SQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
■CHAPTER 8 Managing SQL Server Express Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
PART 2 ■ ■ ■ Working with Visual Basic Express
and Visual Web Developer Express
■CHAPTER 9 Introduction to Visual Basic Express and Windows Forms. . . . . . . . . . . . 371
■CHAPTER 10 Introduction to Visual Web Developer Express,
Web Pages, and Web Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
■CHAPTER 11 Programming ADO.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
■CHAPTER 12 Programming DataAdapter and DataSet Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
■CHAPTER 13 Using Visual Database and Form Design Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
■INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
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