Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 7 in 24 Hours brings together the most common tasks you need to perform. This book offers goal-oriented lessons for the busy user who needs to get up to speed quickly and efficiently. Walk through the tasks that you need to perform and learn to store, retrieve, and manipulate data in a SQL Server database. The book also serves as a reference guide even after you have become reasonably proficient. Database application developers will find what they want in this book's direct description of the core concepts needed. Topics included are creating databases and gathering information, building queries and retrieving data, analyzing and defining data, creating tables, and working with views, stored procedures and triggers.