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Announcing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Step by Step by Patrick LeBlanc Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building applications with Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Teach yourself the programming fundamentals of SQL Server 2012—one step at a time. Ideal for beginning SQL Server database administrators and...

We’re pleased to announce that Training Kit (Exam 70-461): Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is available for purchase. Ace your preparation for Microsoft Certification Exam 70-461 with this 2-in-1 Training Kit from Microsoft Press. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and practical exercises...

Programming in C# Jump Start- March 13 th , 2013 8:00am-5:00pm PST Microsoft Technical Evangelist Jerry Nixon and co-founder of Crank211 Daren May will deliver an engaging, demo-rich MVA Jump Start course on Mar.13. The live accelerated course for intermediate to seasoned developers will cover core concepts...

We’re happy to announce the availability of the Training Kit (Exam 70-463): Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (ISBN 978-0-7356-6609-2). If you are planning to take the 70-463 exam, are an ETL or data warehouse developer who focuses on creating business intelligence (BI) solutions...

A hearty congratulations to Andrew Brust, author of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Microsoft Press, 2012), for becoming a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional . Take a look at Andrew’s MVP profile here . Here’s an earlier post by Andrew as he was launching his Big on Data blog . Again, congrats...

Once the upcoming book Windows Server 2012 Inside Out hits the shelves in February, 2013, it will mark the 150th book written by William Stanek. We at Microsoft Press want to congratulate him. He is one of our top authors and someone whose books receive the highest ratings from readers in our book survey...

We’re happy to announce the availability of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services , by Wee-Hyong Tok, Rakesh Parida, Matt Masson, Xiaoning Ding, and Kaarthik Sivashanmugam. This book provides ETL developers and database administrators (DBAs) with comprehensive information on SQL Server 2012...

Have you ever wanted to search across the Microsoft Press book titles to find if or where a topic is mentioned? Safari Books Online provides a great platform for searching across all of our titles. You don’t even have to have a subscription to search. Here area a couple of new links to search results...

We’re happy to announce the availability of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model, by Marco Russo, Chris Webb, and Alberto Ferrari. As one Amazon reviewer put it, “Marco, Chris, and Alberto are familiar names synonymous with deep expertise and understanding of the product...

We’re happy to announce the availability of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (ISBN 978-0-7356-5822-6), by Leonard Lobel and Andrew Brust. This book is a quintessential guide to the programming features in Microsoft SQL Server 2012, packed with the information you need to design, test, and deploy...

Updated We just released the RTM version of our Windows Server 2012 ebook. Check it out! PDF - Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition - PDF ebook EPUB – Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition – ePub format MOBI – Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition – MOBI format (for Kindle)  ...

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We’re pleased to announce that Training Kit (Exam 70-462): Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases (ISBN 9780735666078) is now available for purchase! Written by Orin Thomas, Peter Ward and boB Taylor, this training guide will help you gain the skills you need in these areas: •Install and configure...

Microsoft Learning has started a campaign called Be The Next Microsoft Employee. They’ve narrowed it to four contestants who have to complete challenges to potentially become an employee using their SQL Server skills. I’m not even a programmer and I thought this video was great to watch. I liked hearing...

Get two sample chapters selected by author William Stanek. Click here for your PDF Here’s what you’ll learn Chapter 1: Managing SQL Servers Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is the primary tool you use to manage databases and servers. Other tools available to manage local and remote servers include...

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We’re happy to announce the availability of the newest book on SQL Server 2012 for Microsoft Press: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals by Itzik Ben-Gan. Gain a solid understanding of T-SQL—and write better queries Master the fundamentals of Transact-SQL—and develop your own code for querying...

We’re happy to announce the availability of Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions (ISBN: 9780735658363; 244 pages), by Itzik Ben-Gan! As Itzik explains, “Window functions are functions applied to sets of rows defined by a clause called OVER....

Just a quick note to say that our post sharing the free Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 ebook has had, as of last night, 100,000 views. This is pretty rare for us. It’s the eighth post out of our 970-odd posts to the blog to reach that milestone. (Sort our posts by “Most Views”...

Save 25% through April 30, 2012 at Amazon.com. Click here and look for the coupon on the book’s detail page. How to Redeem the Coupon: To apply a coupon offer to a qualifying item, add coupon in one of two ways: Click on the coupon offer on the item detail page which will take you to "Your Coupon...

Greetings! Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 , which you can get for free in the U.S. Kindle Store (and we’re working on making it free in the Kindle Stores for other countries), looks to be the only full technology-focused ebook in the Top 100 Free list at the moment: If the ebook isn’t free yet...

Here’s the fifth post in our series of guest posts by Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs). Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized the inspiring activities of MVPs around the world with the MVP Award . MVPs freely share their deep knowledge, real-world experience, and impartial and objective...

Here’s the fourth post in our series of guest posts by Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs). Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized the inspiring activities of MVPs around the world with the MVP Award . MVPs freely share their deep knowledge, real-world experience, and impartial and objective...

Friends, the final and complete version of Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 , by Ross Mistry ( @RossMistry ) and Stacia Misner ( @StaciaMisner ), is now ready as a free download! You can download the PDF version of this title here (288 pages; 10.8 MB). We will update this post soon with links...

This post is by Microsoft Press author and Microsoft MVP Andrew Brust : I am proud to announce that I am ZDNet’s newest contributor, penning their Big on Data blog. I’ve been interested in the “Big Data” movement for a while. I have Microsoft to thank for this, as I wrote a white paper on NoSQL for the...