Rick Dobson Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express Database Applications with Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express From Novice to Professional 5238CH00_FM 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page i Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express Database Applications with Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express From Novice to Professional Copyright © 2006 by Rick Dobson All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN (pbk): 1-59059-523-8 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. 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You will need to answer questions pertaining to this book in order to successfully download the code. 5238CH00_FM 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page ii Contents at a Glance About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix PART 1 ■ ■ ■ Working with SQL Server Express ■ CHAPTER 1 Getting Started with SQL Server Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ■ CHAPTER 2 Graphical and Command-Line Query Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 ■ CHAPTER 3 Exploring, Creating, and Recovering Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 ■ CHAPTER 4 Data Types, Tables, and Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 ■ CHAPTER 5 Creating Queries from a Single Database Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 ■ CHAPTER 6 Querying Multiple Database Objects and Manipulating Result Sets . . . 191 ■ CHAPTER 7 Leveraging Database Objects That Encapsulate T-SQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 ■ CHAPTER 8 Managing SQL Server Express Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 PART 2 ■ ■ ■ Working with Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express ■ CHAPTER 9 Introduction to Visual Basic Express and Windows Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 ■ CHAPTER 10 Introduction to Visual Web Developer Express, Web Pages, and Web Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 ■ CHAPTER 11 Programming ADO.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 ■ CHAPTER 12 Programming DataAdapter and DataSet Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 ■ CHAPTER 13 Using Visual Database and Form Design Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515 ■ INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575 iii 5238CH00_FM 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page iii 5238CH00_FM 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page iv About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix PART 1 ■ ■ ■ Working with SQL Server Express ■ CHAPTER 1 Getting Started with SQL Server Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What Is SQL Server Express? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Who Is SQL Server Express For? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hobbyists and Other Nonprofessional Developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Business Analysts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Database Administrators and Operations Specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Professional Developers in Need of a Free, Modern Database . . . . . . . . . . . 8 SQL Server Express vs. SQL Server 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Similarities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 SQL Server Express vs. MSDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Installing SQL Server Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Performing a System Check for SQL Server Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Registration, Feature, and Instance Name Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Service Account and Authentication Mode Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Collation, Error Reporting, and Ready to Install Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Using SQL Server Express Query Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Query Tools for SQL Server Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Configuring SQL Server Express to Start Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Configuring SQL Server Express for Network Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Configuring the Windows XP Firewall for SQL Server Express . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting from the SSMS-Based Query Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting from Remote Down-Level Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Installing Sample Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Connecting to SQL Server Express from Visual Studio 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Connecting to SQL Server Express from Access Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Connecting to SQL Server Express from Access Linked Tables . . . . . . . . . 28 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 v Contents 5238CH00_FM 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page v ■ CONTENTSvi ■ CHAPTER 2 Graphical and Command-Line Query Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using the SSMS-Based Query Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Connecting to SQL Server Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Using Database, Table, and View Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Designing, Running, Saving, and Rerunning SQL Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Using the sqlcmd Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Connecting to SQL Server Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Running Statements from a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Saving Output to a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Dynamically Running and Batching sqlcmd Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 ■ CHAPTER 3 Exploring, Creating, and Recovering Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Overview of Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Introducing Database Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Types of Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Getting Meta Data About Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Using sp_helpdb for Database Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Using System Catalog Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Searching for and Copying Databases with Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . 83 Using CREATE DATABASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Just Naming the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Designating Data Files in the ON Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Using the LOG ON Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Attaching and Detaching Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Attaching Databases with CREATE DATABASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Copying Files, the Auto-Close Feature, and sp_detach_db . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Backing Up and Restoring Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Overview of Database Recovery Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Choosing and Modifying a Database’s Recovery Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Performing a Full Data Backup and Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Performing Differential Backups and Restores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Cleaning Up the Backup and Restore Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 ■ CHAPTER 4 Data Types, Tables, and Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Learning About Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Numbers and Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Character and Binary Byte Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Creating Tables and Using Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Creating a Table with Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 5238CH00_FM 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page vi ■ CONTENTS vii Managing Data Integrity with Basic Constraints and Column Properties . . . . . . 128 Inserting Data for a Subset of Table Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Not Allowing Null Values in a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Designating Default Column Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Designating a Column as a Primary Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Managing Data Integrity with Sophisticated Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Using CHECK Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Using Multicolumn Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Using Foreign Key Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 ■ CHAPTER 5 Creating Queries from a Single Database Object . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Specifying Items to Select from a Data Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Specifying SELECT List Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Using the Current Database Context or a Different Database . . . . . . . . . . 165 Specifying Queries from Another Server Instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Filtering, Grouping, and Aggregating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Filtering for Exact and Approximate Character Matches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Filtering for Values in a Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Grouping and Aggregating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 ■ CHAPTER 6 Querying Multiple Database Objects and Manipulating Result Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Joining Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Inner Joins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Outer Joins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Cross Joins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Self-Joins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Joins for More Than Two Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Using Subqueries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Including a Subquery in a SELECT List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Including a Subquery in a WHERE Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Including a Correlated Subquery in a WHERE Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Explicitly Ordering and Ranking Rows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Controlling Row Order with the ORDER BY Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Ranking Result Set Rows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Manipulating Result Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Saving a Result Set with the INTO Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Appending Result Sets to One Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Reusing Queries with Common Table Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Converting Between Relational and Cross-Tabulated Tables . . . . . . . . . 239 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 5238CH00_FM 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page vii ■ CHAPTER 7 Leveraging Database Objects That Encapsulate T-SQL . . . . 247 Creating and Using Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Performing Data Access with a View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Performing Data Modification with a View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Processing Meta Data with System Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Creating and Using User-Defined Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Creating and Using FN User-Defined Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Creating and Using IF User-Defined Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Creating and Using Stored Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Returning Result Sets Without Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Returning Result Sets and Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Returning Scalar Values with Output Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Processing Return Status Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Performing Data Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Creating and Using Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Learning to Reference Inserted and Deleted Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Rolling Back in an AFTER Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Archiving Changes to a Table with Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Using an INSTEAD OF Trigger with a View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 ■ CHAPTER 8 Managing SQL Server Express Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Overview of Security Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Exploring and Creating Principals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Exploring Principals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Creating Principals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Assigning Permissions to Principals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 Overview of Securables and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Assigning Permissions via the Fixed Server Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Assigning Permissions via the Fixed Database Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Granting, Denying, and Revoking Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Creating and Using Schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 Creating and Owning Schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 Creating Objects in Owned Schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Creating Objects in Any Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 Using Encryption Keys and Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Encrypting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 Signing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 ■ CONTENTSviii 5238CH00_FM 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page viii ■ CONTENTS ix PART 2 ■ ■ ■ Working with Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express ■ CHAPTER 9 Introduction to Visual Basic Express and Windows Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Starting, Saving, and Exploring a Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Starting and Saving a New Solution’s Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Adding Items to a Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 Exploring a Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 Using Visual Basic Data Types in VBE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Data Types Are Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Overview of Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 Declaring Variables and Assigning Data Type Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Building and Testing a Windows Form Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Creating a New Startup Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Populating a Windows Form with Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 Adding Button Click Event Procedures to a Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 Testing the Code Behind a Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 Handling Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 A Form for Running Try .Catch Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 Using Try .Catch Statements Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 Invoking a Try .Catch Statement in a Function Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 Dynamically Adapting to Runtime Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Using the File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Design and Formatted Views of an Application Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Exploring Folders and Viewing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Reading Fixed-Width Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 ■ CHAPTER 10 Introduction to Visual Web Developer Express, Web Pages, and Web Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 ASP.NET Development Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 Starting and Exploring ASP.NET Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 Starting an ASP.NET Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 Exploring a New ASP.NET Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Creating Pages for an ASP.NET Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 Changing a Page by Clicking a Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 Returning a Formatted Date from a Calendar Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 Programming a Message-for-the-Day Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Creating and Linking HTML Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 5238CH00_FM 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page ix [...]... with SQL Server Express from the other SQL Server 2005 editions This new query tool helps you program SQL Server Express with Transact -SQL (T -SQL) , the special SQL (Structured Query Language) variant for Microsoft SQL Server • Use SQL Server Express with down-level, or legacy, clients These may be the client applications or similar applications that you are currently using with SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server. .. with SQL Server 2005, and the next section contrasts SSE with MSDE Similarities SQL Server 2005 represents a major upgrade from SQL Server 2000 SQL Server Express inherits many of the improvements introduced with the SQL Server 2005 family of editions This section identifies selected improvements and core database engine capabilities that are available through SQL Server Express The main SQL Server 2005. .. development tasks SQL Server Express offers an easy and free way for DBAs and operations specialists to gain experience with and evaluate SQL Server 2005 technology for their organizations In this sense, SQL Server Express serves the same kind of role for SQL Server 2005 that MSDE played for SQL Server 7 and SQL Server 2000 This simplified migration of MSDE solutions to more advanced SQL Server editions,... Basic Express, Visual Web Developer Express, and query tools, including a special edition of SQL Server Management Studio for SQL Server Express You can manually configure SQL Server Express by enabling network protocols, restarting (or initially starting) the SQL Server Express instance, and starting the 7 5238CH01 8 11/18/05 4:30 PM Page 8 CHAPTER 1 ■ GETTING STARTED WITH SQL SERVER EXPRESS SQL Server. .. system • SQL Server Express is smaller than most other editions of SQL Server 2005, so it distributes as part of an application package efficiently over the Internet SQL Server Express installs with a default name, which simplifies sharing a single SQL Server Express instance with multiple applications 5238CH01 11/18/05 4:30 PM Page 9 CHAPTER 1 ■ GETTING STARTED WITH SQL SERVER EXPRESS SQL Server Express. .. Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express and explains how to use these applications with SQL Server Express What Is SQL Server Express? SQL Server Express is the database component for the 2005 Express suite components from Microsoft Other components in the suite include • Visual Basic Express • Visual Web Developer Express • Visual C# Express, Visual C++ Express, and Visual J# Express 3... of SQL Server Express users conveys an appreciation of the wide range of audiences and applications that SQL Server Express can serve The chapter’s third and fourth main sections contrast SQL Server Express with alternative database servers to clarify further the special benefits that SQL Server Express brings to the use of databases in organizations Although SQL Server Express is technically a server. .. significantly abridged in its SQL Server Express edition include the following: • SQL Server Express cannot host a Reporting Services instance, but SQL Server Express users will be able to compose reports on any SQL Server 2005 instance that is hosting Reporting Services • With the Service Broker, two SQL Server instances can exchange information Service Broker is a new SQL Server 2005 resource that supports... solutions using SQL Server Express over the Internet because of its small size versus other SQL Server 2005 editions • SQL Server Express has a customized data access mode (SQL Native Client), which installs along with SQL Server Express and does not require a distinct MDAC (Microsoft Data Access) library version • The availability of a custom data access mode helps to make SQL Server Express less dependent... from SQL Server Express are the enterprise features The core database engine features are all available with SSE and other SQL Server 2005 editions In fact, the SQL Server Express feature set extends beyond the needs of many environments that are likely candidates for adopting it T -SQL is at the heart of the core features in SQL Server Express for traditional database development chores SQL Server Express . Working with SQL Server Express ■ CHAPTER 1 Getting Started with SQL Server Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What Is SQL Server Express? . 11/18/05 4:29 PM Page i Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express Database Applications with Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express From Novice to