Microsoft SQL Server databases not only store data that underlie many organizations, although it and its predecessors have always played a role. It's very detailed and totally comprehensive in its treatment of how SQL Server 2000 works in terms of database management, administration, and (at a somewhat lower level) programming. A lot of fairly basic database design information: the author shows, for example, that it is better to look for if your table has a separate field for first and last name, instead of one "Name" field. But it is clear information about SQL Server 2000 itself - even, for example, the most obvious trace flag - is unrelentingly detailed Wall. - David Topics covered: Everything you can do through the user interface of Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and almost all that you tend to want to do when the program to the server.