December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1560 pages
40h 44m
English
What does SQL Server 2000 have to offer over SQL Server 7? The following is a list of the new features provided in SQL Server 2000:
User-defined functions
Indexed views
Distributed partitioned views
INSTEAD OF and AFTER triggers
New datatypes
Cascading RI constraints
Multiple SQL Server instances
XML support
Log shipping
The rest of this section takes a closer look at each of these new features and provides a reference to subsequent chapters where more information about the new feature can be found.
SQL Server has always provided the ability to store and execute SQL code routines via stored procedures. In addition, SQL Server has always supplied a number of built-in functions. Functions can be used ...
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