Getting Started with SQL Server Express

This video series is designed specifically for SQL Server beginners—individuals who are interested in learning the basics of how to create, manage, and connect to SQL Server Express databases. Whether you’re just a beginner or somewhat familiar with databases, these video lessons will help you get better acquainted with SQL Server 2005 Express. Getting StartedThe series includes almost 9 hours of video-based instruction that walks SQL Server beginners through the steps of learning about SQL Server databases to actually connecting a SQL Server database to a Web application. Select your starting point below based on your skill set.

In yesterday's lesson, you learned a little bit about SQL Server 7.0 and relational databases in general. Microsoft SQL Server is a mature product, but the 7.0 release consists of a dramatic set of new functionality. You also looked at why a typical developer or database administrator might need a relational database—customers demand it. They need to keep track of objects and properties that translate rather nicely to tables with rows of data, divided into columns.

Today's lesson examines how to install SQL Server 7.0. Although running the setup program isn't very difficult, you will make critical decisions that affect your entire development, and undoing any mistakes can be quite time consuming later. You also must understand issues such as hardware and software prerequisites so you can choose the best environment for SQL Server.

There are many occasions where if someone updates a records or even deletes a record we need to keep the Audit trails of the record updated or deleted or even keep a history of records as what are the updates that happened on the database as well as what are the records deleted from the table. In Any database system there are triggers to achieve the same but remember that if triggers if not used efficiently can degrade the performance of the Database system.

In this article, I will explain how it is possible to connect and query an MS SQL server (running under a Windows operating system) from php installed on a unix box. The same problem, in the case of php installed under Windows is not covered here because it is well explained in php FAQ; sadly I cannot say the same thing for the unix case. In fact, there is a multitude of incorrect or outdated sources of information which will cause new people trying to solve this problem to drop it after some bad tries. This article can also be of help to people who don't want to use php as a client.

An object in SQL Server is any component of a database. Many types of objects can be stored in a SQL Server database, including:
Tables

• Views
• Stored procedures
• Indexes
• Triggers
• Views
• Keys
• Constraints
• Defaults
• Rules
• User-defined data types