U sing a series of demos drawn from his latest book, Bill guides you through the maze of issues you'll face as you connect to, manage, and monitor SQL Server instances including the new SQL Express ...

4. Change Computer Name of node which will host the standalone SQL instance to old SQL Server Virtual Server Name 5. Reboot the server 6.

He shows the new utilities and code used to configure SQL Server 2005, including demonstrations of code used to create the new SqlConnectionStringBuilder. You'll learn how to discover data source ...