Book excerpt: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming Unleashed will catapult past the basics of SQL Server right to the intermediate and advanced database programming topics. This book is designed to be a hard-core concentrated programming book for anyone who programs against a SQL Server database. This book will give insight into the problems facing programmers today. Showing how to accomplish their programming goals by implementing the latest features of this technology into their solutions.This title will include topics such as: multi-tiered application programming, database migration, connecting through programming APIs, scheduling tasks, query optimization, stored procedures, dynamic execution, specialized triggers, replication, SQL Server and XML; Data Transformation Services; security; and Analysis Services.