About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Server Hardware -- Windows Tuning -- Clustering and Multi-Instances -- Installing and Upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 -- Microsoft SQL Server Tools -- Server Maintenance -- Data Transformation Services (DTS) -- Black Book Databases -- Structured Query Language (SQL) -- New Features -- Performance, Tuning, and Optimization -- Error Handling -- Cursors -- Stored Procedures and External Stored Procedures -- BCP -- Database Design -- Triggers -- Meta Data -- Advanced Techniques -- XML -- English Query -- Book Database Schema -- Newsgroups and the Internet.