This presentation considers why you would want to design a search engine using SQL Server 2000. It provides a practical overview of the components that can be used to build your search engine such as Full Text, Index Server and Site Server, and how to use the SQL dialect to query the catalogues. This presentation describes the author's experiences in performance management and capacity planning for systems based on Microsoft's SQL Server database management product. The presentation covers design and performance techniques for SQL Server and concludes with a description of the techniques employed to establish and verify a capacity plan using modelling techniques. This presentation evaluates how application development can be undertaken for the SQL Server environment.
Special emphasis is placed on the issues of developing applications for the Web environment.
A review of the components that can be used is given and practical examples are provided. 2000 provides considerable new functionality and with this come new management considerations. This Round Table discussion allows delegates to air their views and have their questions answered on topics relating to SQL Server 2000. Authoritative and professionally given. M Holman, Senior Technical Analyst, BT, UK 'Excellent speakers and excellent presentations . . .