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by Bryan Syverson and Joel Murach 22 chapters, 778 pages, 336 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-890774-51-6 When we published the first edition of this book, we heard from plenty of developers who were just starting out using Microsoft SQL Server and found this to be a great book for training. But we also heard from a lot of experienced developers who read it and were amazed to discover how much they didn't know about SQL. That's why we've dubbed this book "the SQL book that most developers don't even know they need." So whether you're new to SQL...or whether you've been squeaking by with the SQL you know, never realizing how much you're missing out on...this is the book for you. For example, you'll learn: How to create complex inner and outer joins, summary queries, and subqueries that do more of the database processing for you so that your ...

by Anne Boehm and Ged Mead 18 chapters, 714 pages, 320 illustrations ISBN 978-1-890774-62-2 If you're going to develop serious database applications in Visual Basic…the kind that businesses rely on every day…then this is the book for you. It teaches you how to use Visual Studio 2010 and ADO.NET 4 to develop professional database applications for both Windows and the web as quickly and easily as possible. And it covers the full gamut of skills you need, from using built-in data tools that generate ADO.NET code to writing your own ADO.NET code from scratch so you can closely control how the database processing works: