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What does it take to create a database server solution? In most situations, it takes a lot more than just installing SQL Server 2005 on your desktop box. That’s what this series is all about.

Exam-Pack 70-443: Designing a Database Server Infrastructure Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 takes you through the process of designing your SQL 2005 solution.

You’ll understand hardware requirements, software and OS configurations, how to implement disaster recovery and high availability measures, security policies for your database servers, how to design and index tables, and how to manage backups — plus a whole lot more. 

Get the official resource for deploying, administering, and troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 networking and Network Access Protection (NAP) technologies, direct from the experts who know the technologies best. This definitive resource from award-winning Microsoft® networking author Joseph Davies and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) author Tony Northrup also offers expert insights direct from the Windows Server Networking team at Microsoft. You get detailed information about all major networking and network security services, including the all-new Network Access Protection (NAP), authentication infrastructure, IPv4 and IPv6, remote access, virtual private networks, IP security, quality of service, scalable networking, wireless infrastructure and security, DNS, DHCP, Windows® Firewall, and more. You also get a companion DVD with a fully searchable eBook version of the book, plus eBook samples from Understanding IPv6 2nd Edition, Windows Server 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services, and TCP/IP Fundamentals. This official Microsoft resource delivers what every Windows administrator needs to master Windows Server 2008 networking.

Renowned IT project management expert, Joseph Phillips, again delivers an authoritative, easy-to-understand guide that delves into all CompTIA IT Project+ certification objectives. The “Inside the Exam” sections focus on the necessary topics to pass the new CompTIA exam. Each chapter features an end-of-chapter review, and the CD-ROM includes an IT Project+ practice test, plus templates and worksheets to use when managing a project.

Exploit advanced T-SQL language features with in-depth architectural insights from the experts.

Get a detailed look at the internal architecture of T-SQL with this comprehensive programming reference. Database developers and administrators get best practices, expert techniques, and code samples to master the intricacies of the programming language—solving complex problems with real-world solutions.

Get a detailed look at the internal architecture of T-SQL with this comprehensive programming reference. Database developers and administrators get best practices, expert techniques, and code samples to master the intricacies of the programming language—solving complex problems with real-world solutions.

Discover how to:
•Understand when to apply set-based programming techniques
•Design and implement date and time-related XML and CLR datatypes
•Use temporary objects, including temporary tables, table variables, and table expressions
•Work with T-SQL and CLR user-defined functions, stored procedures, and triggers
•Support user input-based queries and variable data with dynamic execution
•Work with transactions and new exception handling constructs
•Apply a concurrency model to support simultaneous users
•Use Service Broker for controlled asynchronous processing in database applications

Everything you need to create a 21st-century public relations strategy, with international case studies from companies in the US, Spain, South Africa, Indonesia and Russia, including Royal Caribbean, Edelman Public Relations, 3M Scotch and the Marriott Hotel Group. Contents include
Not Just PR: PR strategy in a management context; PR's Place on the Board: A core governance role; Reputation management in a celebrity-driven society; Internal Communication: Employees as ambassadors; Beyond ?Customer is King: ? Sales and marketing promotion; Media Relations: A borderless world view; Research Methods: Measures and motives; and The Ethical Dimension: A moral imperative.

John Chambers has been the principal designer of the S language since its beginning, and in 1999 received the ACM System Software award for S, the only statistical software to receive this award. He is author or coauthor of the landmark books on S. Now he turns to R, the enormously successful open-source system based on the S language. R's international support and the thousands of packages and other contributions have made it the standard for statistical computing in research and teaching. This book guides the reader through programming with R, beginning with simple interactive use and progressing by gradual stages, starting with simple functions. More advanced programming techniques can be added as needed, allowing users to grow into software contributors, benefiting their careers and the community. R packages provide a powerful mechanism for contributions to be organized and communicated. The techniques covered include such modern programming enhancements as classes and methods, namespaces, and interfaces to spreadsheets or data bases, as well as computations for data visualization, numerical methods, and the use of text data.

* Web Design Foundations Good design comes from a deep understanding of the technologies behind the scenes.

* Consistency Learning from convention will make your site better.
* Structure Information architecture defined - from the Web's biggest sites to the simplest user experience to an XML-enabled future.
* Behavior Designing with interactivity and self-aware content.
* Browsers With so many broken browsers, you'll need a strategy for designing for them all.
* Speed The performance of your Web site is the most critical factor of its success.
* Advertising Being commercial is a reality. Is your site as effective as it could be?
* Object Oriented Publishing Harness the power of dynamic, database-driven Web sites.

Games on Symbian OS is the only guide to highlight the gaming opportunities presented by the Symbian OS platform, with particular emphasis on the creation of mobile games in C++ using native APIs.

Jo Stichbury leads a field of industry experts to provide the reader with detailed information about the key APIs used to create games. The book includes a broad introduction to games on mobile phones and describes the various ways of creating and playing mobile games. It also provides clear code examples and discussion, with information about how to optimise code for best practice. The authors use standard techniques to relay information (tables, diagrams and code samples) as well as cross-referencing between chapters and, where necessary, to other books in the Symbian Press series and beyond (e.g. to SDK documentation).