I doubt you could find anyone more qualified to write this book. Content Soukupp, being in the position he is, gives a history of the development of the product to its currently evolved state. The message is that SQL Server is the data source of choice for NT Server as it has been developed to most utilise the NT operating system architecture. The chapters giving an overview of the features of SQL Server and its architecture break the reader in and help set the scope and context. A further whole chapter is devoted to the subject of planning and installation.
Emphasis is put on the importance of capacity planning and selecting the correct hardware.
Soukupp details the potential pit-falls and issues that may be overlooked as one glides through the simple installation process. Soukupp goes into great detail on the subject of databases, devices and tables right from first principles. The greater part of the book focuses on the use of SQL and its Transact SQL extensions. These essentially give an in depth analysis of building queries using the core SQL statements, again with plenty of examples. As Transact-SQL is an extension to ANSI SQL, its treatment is given separately.