Who This Book Is For This Unleashed book is intended for intermediate- to advanced-level users: for SQL Serveradministrators who want to understand SQL Server more completely to be able to effec-tively manage and administer their SQL Server environments, and for developers whowant a more thorough understanding of SQL Server to help them write better Transact-SQL (T-SQL) code and develop more robust SQL Server applications. If you are responsiblefor analysis, design, implementation, support, administration, or troubleshooting of SQLServer 2005, this book provides an excellent source of experiential information for you.You can think of this as a book of applied technology. The emphasis is on the morecomplex aspects of the product, including using the new tools and features, server admin-istration, query analysis and optimization, data warehousing, management of very largedatabases, ensuring high availability, and performance tuning.