Adam Machanic & Lara Rubbelke 
Expert SQL Server 2005 Development [PDF ebook] 

Software Development Methodologies for the Database World.- Testing Database Routines.- Errors and Exceptions.- Privilege and Authorization.- Encryption.- SQLCLR: Architecture and Design Considerations.- Dynamic T-SQL.- Designing Systems for Application Concurrency.- Working with Spatial Data.- Working with Temporal Data.- Trees, Hierarchies, and Graphs.

Adam Machanic is an independent database software consultant, writer, and speaker based in Boston. He has implemented SQL Server solutions for a variety of high-availability online transaction processing and large-scale data warehouse applications, and also specializes in .NET data access layer performance optimization. Adam has written for SQL Server Professional and Tech Net magazines, serves as the SQL Server 2005 Expert for Search SQLServer.com, and has contributed to several books on SQL Server, including Pro SQL Server 2005 (Apress, 2005). He regularly speaks at user groups, community events, and conferences on a variety of SQL Server and .NET-related topics. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP). When not sitting at the keyboard pounding out code or code-related prose, Adam tries to spend a bit of time with his wife, Kate, and daughter, Aura, both of whom seem to believe that there is more to life than SQL. Adam blogs at http://www.sqlblog.com, and can be contacted directly at amachanic@datamanipulation.net.