As longtime data warehousing practitioners and former Microsoft insiders, authors Joy Mundy and Warren Thornthwaite have extensive experience in building and managing data warehouse (DW) and business intelligence (BI) systems. With this book, they share best practices for using SQL Server 2005 to build a successful DW/BI system. Covering the...

The topics covered will be more in depth than other introductory-level books of similar topics, and will span from layer 2 technologies such as switching, STP,...

Every day organizations large and small fall victim to attacks on their data. Encryption provides a shield to help defend against intruders. Because of increasing pressure from government regulators, consumers, and the business community at large, the job descriptions of SQL DBAs and developers are expanding to include encryption. Expert SQL...

Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in the tech industry today. The leader in the virtualization space at the present time is without a doubt VMware with its virtual infrastructure offering. As VMware software began to take its place in the data center and demand respect in the industry, the need for a...

Although numerous books on security are available, many of them cover only theory or perhaps a security silo—that is, an island of security based on a particular tool, application, or technology. It should be obvious that no complete security solution is a silo; all secure business applications touch many tools and many technologies. Also,...