How to read this

Start at the beginning. When you reach the end, stop.

Introduction; Who should read this book; Who should not read this book;
Organization of this book; Conventions and features in this book; System
requirements; Code samples; Acknowledgments; Errata & book support; We
want to hear from you; Stay in touch; Getting started with Microsoft SQL
Server 2012; Chapter 1: Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2012; 1.1
Business intelligence; 1.2 Database Engine; 1.3 T-SQL programming
interface; 1.4 Security subsystem; 1.5 Replication; 1.6 Summary; Chapter
2: Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server 2012; 2.1
Editions of SQL Server 2012; 2.2 Choosing hardware for SQL Server; 2.3
Software prerequisites; 2.4 Before installation; 2.5 Installing SQL
Server; 2.6 After installation; 2.7 How to upgrade to SQL Server 2012;
2.8 Summary; Chapter 3: Using SQL Server 2012 administration and
development tools; 3.1 Using SQL Server Books Online; 3.2 Using SQL
Server Management Studio; 3.3 Using SQL Server Management Studio to
create solutions and projects; 3.4 Using SQL Server Data Tools; 3.5
Using SQL Server Configuration Manager; 3.6 Summary; Designing
databases; Chapter 4: Designing SQL Server databases; 4.1 Understanding
SQL Server system databases; 4.2 Understanding the SQL Server database
structure; 4.3 Adding files and filegroups; 4.4 Detaching and attaching
SQL Server databases; 4.5 Understanding database recovery models; 4.6
Summary; Chapter 5: Creating your first table; 5.1 Developing a naming
standard; 5.2 Understanding schemas; 5.3 Understanding SQL Server data
types; 5.4 Understanding column properties; 5.5 Creating tables; 5.6
Altering tables; 5.7 Understanding computed columns; 5.8 Adding
constraints to a table; 5.9 Understanding the FileTable; 5.10 Creating
database diagrams; 5.11 Summary; Chapter 6: Building and maintaining
indexes; 6.1 Index structure overview; 6.2 Adding index options; 6.3
Adding included columns; 6.4 Adding filters to indexes; 6.5 Placing
indexes; 6.6 Disabling and dropping indexes; 6.7 Summary; Advanced
database design topics; Chapter 7: Table compression; 7.1 Understanding
row compression; 7.2 Understanding page compression; 7.3 Estimating
effects of compression; 7.4 Compression considerations; 7.5 Summary;
Chapter 8: Table partitioning; 8.1 Creating a partition function; 8.2
Creating a partition scheme; 8.3 Partitioning tables and indexes; 8.4
Summary; Chapter 9: Database snapshots; 9.1 Understanding database
snapshot prerequisites and limitations; 9.2 Creating and viewing
database snapshots; 9.3 Dropping database snapshots; 9.4 Reverting to a
database snapshot; 9.5 Summary; Chapter 10: The SELECT statement; 10.1
Writing a SELECT statement; 10.2 Sorting results; 10.3 Filtering data
with the WHERE clause; 10.4 Creating aliases; 10.5 Using the JOIN
operator to return data from multiple tables; 10.6 Limiting the data
returned in your result set; 10.7 Using UNION to combine result sets;
10.8 Summary; Using Transact-SQL (T-SQL); Chapter 11: Advanced data
retrieval topics; 11.1 Pivoting and unpivoting data; 11.2 Paging data;
11.3 Writing expressions; 11.4 Using variables; 11.5 Summary; Chapter
12: Modifying data; 12.1 Inserting data into SQL Server tables; 12.2
Using sequence numbers; 12.3 Updating data in tables; 12.4 Deleting data
from tables; 12.5 Merging data; 12.6 Returning output data; 12.7
Summary; Chapter 13: Built-in scalar functions; 13.1 Using date and time
functions; 13.2 Using conversion functions; 13.3 Using string functions;
13.4 Using logical functions; 13.5 Summary; Creating other database
objects; Chapter 14: Advanced T-SQL topics; 14.1 Aggregating, windowing,
and grouping; 14.2 Windowing; 14.3 Using SQL Server temporary objects;
14.4 Handling T-SQL errors; 14.5 Controlling flow keywords; 14.6
Summary; Chapter 15: Views; 15.1 What are views?; 15.2 Creating indexed
views; 15.3 Summary; Chapter 16: User-defined functions; 16.1
Understanding user-defined scalar functions; 16.2 Understanding
table-valued functions; 16.3 Limitations of functions; 16.4 Summary;
Chapter 17: Stored procedures; 17.1 Working with stored procedures; 17.2
Using the EXECUTE keyword; 17.3 Parameterizing stored procedures; 17.4
Dropping stored procedures; 17.5 Summary; Chapter 18: Data manipulation
triggers; 18.1 Types of triggers; 18.2 Creating triggers; 18.3 Altering
triggers; 18.4 Dropping triggers; 18.5 Enabling and disabling triggers;
18.6 Summary; SQL Server replication; Chapter 19: Replication; 19.1
Types of replication; 19.2 Replication agents; 19.3 Configuring
replication; 19.4 Monitoring replication; 19.5 Summary; Database
maintenance; Chapter 20: Backups; 20.1 Understanding backup devices;
20.2 Full database backups; 20.3 Differential database backups; 20.4
Transaction log database backups; 20.5 Restoring databases; 20.6
Summary; Chapter 21: Managing and maintaining indexes and statistics;
21.1 Checking index fragmentation; 21.2 Defragmenting indexes; 21.3
Creating and updating database statistics; 21.4 Summary; Chapter 22:
Maintenance plans; 22.1 Performing database consistency checks; 22.2
Creating maintenance plans; 22.3 Summary; Database management; Chapter
23: SQL Server Profiler; 23.1 Understanding SQL Server Profiler; 23.2
Creating traces; 23.3 Running server-side traces; 23.4 Summary; Chapter
24: Extended Events; 24.1 Understanding the Extended Events
architecture; 24.2 Creating and configuring an Extended Events session;
24.3 Using an Extended Events session to monitor system performance;
24.4 Summary; Chapter 25: SQL Server security; 25.1 Understanding
principals; 25.2 Creating server logins; 25.3 Creating user-defined
server roles; 25.4 Creating database users; 25.5 Creating built-in
database roles; 25.6 Configuring contained databases; 25.7 Summary;
Chapter 26: Resource Governor; 26.1 Enabling and disabling Resource
Governor; 26.2 Creating resource pools; 26.3 Creating a workload group;
26.4 Using classifier functions; 26.5 Testing classifier functions; 26.6
Modifying Resource Governor configurations; 26.7 Summary; Chapter 27:
SQL Server Agent; 27.1 SQL Server Agent components; 27.2 Viewing SQL
Server Agent Configuration Manager options; 27.3 Configuring SQL Server
Agent properties; 27.4 Creating operators; 27.5 Configuring alerts; 27.6
Configuring jobs; 27.7 Creating proxies; 27.8 Summary; Chapter 28:
Database Mail; 28.1 Database Mail components; 28.2 Configuring Database
Mail; 28.3 Sending email using Database Mail; 28.4 Monitoring Database
Mail; 28.5 Summary; Chapter 29: Data definition triggers; 29.1 Types of
triggers; 29.2 Creating triggers; 29.3 Altering triggers; 29.4 Enabling
and disabling triggers; 29.5 Dropping triggers; 29.6 Summary; Chapter
30: Dynamic management objects; 30.1 Retrieving SQL Server metadata from
DMOs; 30.2 Querying server performance statistics; 30.3 Querying server
information; 30.4 Querying performance information; 30.5 Querying
indexing statistics; 30.6 Summary; High-availability solutions; Chapter
31: AlwaysOn; 31.1 Failover cluster instance improvements; 31.2 Creating
AlwaysOn Availability Groups; 31.3 Administering AlwaysOn Availability
Groups; 31.4 Reading secondary database copies; 31.5 Summary; Chapter
32: Log shipping; 32.1 Log shipping components; 32.2 Log shipping
prerequisites; 32.3 Configuring log shipping; 32.4 Summary; About the
Author;

Karlheinz Fenstermacher wrote:

Introduction; Who should read this book; Who should not read this book;
Organization of this book; Conventions and features in this book; System
requirements; Code samples; Acknowledgments; Errata & book support; We
want to hear from you; Stay in touch; Getting started with Microsoft SQL
Server 2012; Chapter 1: Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2012; ...
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And what does Microsoft SQL Server have to do with THIS newsgroup? Did
you happen to notice the title of THIS newsgroup?

"How to read this". Are you expressing a problem in reading a book in a
language that is not your native language? Or that you've never seen a
book and don't know how to "operate" it?

VanguardLH wrote:
Karlheinz Fenstermacher wrote:

Introduction; Who should read this book; Who should not read this book;
Organization of this book; Conventions and features in this book; System
requirements; Code samples; Acknowledgments; Errata & book support; We
want to hear from you; Stay in touch; Getting started with Microsoft SQL
Server 2012; Chapter 1: Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2012; ...
snipped the rest of the unformatted Table of Contents

And what does Microsoft SQL Server have to do with THIS newsgroup? Did
you happen to notice the title of THIS newsgroup?

"How to read this". Are you expressing a problem in reading a book in a
language that is not your native language? Or that you've never seen a
book and don't know how to "operate" it?

It could be a part of this ebook. Price is listed as $31 CDN.

"Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Step by Step By Patrick LeBlanc"

https://books.google.ca/books?id=Ua1...ons%22&f=false

It's available as a paperback too.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/micr...=9780735670037

Although what this has to do with Windows 7, who can say.

Paul

On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:19:26 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Karlheinz Fenstermacher wrote:

Introduction; Who should read this book; Who should not read this
book;
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And what does Microsoft SQL Server have to do with THIS newsgroup? Did
you happen to notice the title of THIS newsgroup?

A troll using that nym has also been infesting alt.usage.english
recently, though not just with copy/paste junk as here.

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http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

In message , Paul
writes:
VanguardLH wrote:
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language that is not your native language? Or that you've never seen a
book and don't know how to "operate" it?
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Ah, are you perhaps referring to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ (there are probably other
copies)?
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