SQL Server 2005 Express Tutorial - 13

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1. What is a Database? - This introduction covers the questions and terminology SQL
Server beginners need to create and manage databases, such as: What is a SQL Server
database? How is a SQL Server database different from an Excel spreadsheet? What do
SQL Server databases do in my website or software applications? What’s SQL Server
Express’ relation to Visual Studio Express? What do terms like “ADO.NET” mean?
Duration: 28 minutes, 15 seconds
2. Understanding Database Tables and Records - SQL Server beginners will learn about
tables and definitions of data types, properties, keys, etc. in this second video. Find out
how table rows, columns, and fields interrelate and whether columns can be empty.
Duration: 24 minutes, 56 seconds
Date: 29 March 2006
3. More about Column Data Types and Other Properties - SQL Server beginners will
explore data integrity, learn which data types to use for what, and avoid common data
type pitfalls.
Duration: 21 minutes, 37 seconds
Date: 22 February 2006
4. Designing Relational Database Tables - Why are relational databases the most popular?
SQL Server beginners will learn to differentiate between primary and foreign keys,
design relational database tables, and learn about normalization rules and de-
normalization.
Duration: 34 minutes, 10 seconds
Date: 29 March 2006
5. Manipulating Database Data - SQL Server beginners will learn about ADO.NET
objects and execution of SQL statement from ADO.NET. Explore SQL and learn about
insert, update, and delete statements.
Duration: 40 minutes, 20 seconds
Date: 29 March 2006
This lesson requires Management Studio Express and MSXML
6. More Structured Query Language - SQL Server beginners will discover more SQL
statements like sub-select and learn stored procedures and their counterparts in C# and
VB methods.
Duration: 23 minutes, 13 seconds
Date: 29 March 2006
7. Understanding Security and Network Connectivity - SQL Server beginners will learn
to differentiate between SQL Server database files and SQL Server processes. Explore
scenarios for connecting to SQL Server Express databases, enabling and disabling user
instances, login permissions, and other security precautions.
Duration: 40 minutes, 59 seconds
Date: 20 March 2006
8. Connecting your Web Application to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - SQL Server
beginners will walkthrough the entire workflow of creating a database driven Web
application and use visual tools to quickly create an administration application.
Duration: 1 hour, 5 minutes
Date: 20 March 2006
9. Using SQL Server Management Studio - SQL Server Management Studio Express will
typically be your main interface into SQL Server Express. This lesson demonstrates the
essential techniques and skills you’ll need to successfully connect to database instances,
navigate the query window and scripting database objects, attaching, detaching and
backing up databases, and much more.
Duration: 40 minutes, 26 seconds
Date: 23 October 2006
10. Getting Started with Reporting Services - SQL Server Reporting Services allows you
to design and deploy nicely formatted and interactive reports representative of your data.
Suitable for print or online distribution, these reports and it allows you to get professional
results very quickly. This video demonstrates how to set up Reporting Services and the
Business Intelligence Development Studio to build reports using the wizards and
designers, and deploy them to your Report Server.
Duration: 32 minutes, 51 seconds
Date: 21 October 2006
11. Building and Customizing Reports in Business Intelligence Development Studio -
Building on the previous lesson, we dive into building reports from scratch and
modifying the reports that were created using the wizards and designers. We also
demonstrate how to embed your reports into your ASP.NET Web Form applications.
Duration: 44 minutes, 50 seconds
Date: 22 October 2006
12. Creating and Using Stored Procedures - This video expands on the topic of Stored
Procedures which was introduced several lessons ago. In this video we explain the basic
syntax to create and update stored procedures, using input and output parameters, return
values, declaring variables and adding other T-SQL programming elements into you
stored procedures, how to execute your stored procedures from the query window, and
finally the Visual Basic and C# syntax required to utilize stored procedures in your own
applications.
Duration: 42 minutes, 34 seconds
Date: 14 November 2006
13. Enabling Full-Text Search in your Text Data - Full-Text search allows you to save
large portions of text — even Microsoft Word documents, or other file formats — into
your database and perform complex queries based on this textual data while expecting
great performance. This lesson demonstrates how to set up Full-Text search paying
particular attention to the nuances of setting it up within SQL Server Express. Then we
move to creating full-text indexes, configuring the index population settings, and
performing queries that demonstrate the power of the CONTAINS predicate and its many,
many variations.
Duration: 38 minutes, 25 seconds
Date: 14 November 2006