Relational database systems: an introduction --
Planning the installation and installing SQL Server --
SQL Server management studio --
SQL components --
Data definition language-queries --
Modification of table's contents --
Stored procedures and user-defined functions --
System catalog --
Indices --
Views --
Security system of the database engine --
Concurrency control --
Triggers --
System environment of the database engine --
Backup, recovery, and system availability --
Automating system administration tasks --
Data replication --
Query optimizer --
Performance tuning --
Business intelligence: an introduction --
SQL Server analysis services --
Business intelligence and transact-SQL --
SQL Server reporting services --
Optimizing techniques for relational online analytical processing --
SQL Server and XML --
Spatial data --
SQL Server full-text search --
Index.

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