A beginning level tutorial for administrators and developers interested in learning SQL Server 2000. Written by Richard Waymire--the lead Project Manager for the Microsoft SQL Server group. Microsoft SQL Server is the fastest growing database. SQL Server 2000 improves the product with additional features that will help continue this rapid growth. Includes updated coverage of JDBC driver for SQL Server, security best practices, and SQLXML 3.0. Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 2000 in 21 Days, Second Edition clearly defines and walks the reader through the features of SQL Server 2000. The reader is given tips and tricks for working within the new SQL Server 2000 product environment as well as working with SQL Server databases. The book will help the reader learn to: create and alter databases, manage security and implement permissions, protect, back-up and restore data, enforce and ensure data integrity, modify and manipulate data, and create views, triggers, functions, and stored procedures. Richard Waymire is a Program Manager with the SQL Server development team at Microsoft. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Solution Developer (MCSD), Database Administrator (MCDBA), and Systems Engineer + Internet (MCSE). He is a past president of the Pacific Northwest SQL Server User's Group. Rick Sawtell is both a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) as well as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). He owns his own consulting firm and writes and trains on several Microsoft products.