Pike's book provides real world answers and workarounds to common problems and gotchas that developers and system architects encounter while working with Microsoft SQL Server, the most popular database management system for the Windows NT and Windows 2000 platform. Helps developers make the right design and architecture decisions at the beginning of a project. Covers all versions of the SQL Server.

- Pike's book provides real-world answers and workarounds to common problems and "gotchas" that developers and system architects, etc., will encounter while working with SQL Server. - It will help developers make the right design and architecture decisions at the beginning of a project. - This book covers all versions of MS SQL Server - including the newest, SQL 2000. Many people are still running much older versions as well. This book caters to everyone using the newest or oldest versions of the program. Each solution is coded by version number, so that those using different versions of the program can quickly access the information appropriate to their version.