Sample chapters
- By Sven Aelterman, William Assaf, Mindy Curnutt, Randolph WestApr 9, 2018
In this sample chapter from SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out, explore the process of installing and configuring a Microsoft SQL Server instance—including new features added and expanded since SQL Server 2016 Server Pack 1.
- By Daniil Maslyuk, Justin FrebaultDec 24, 2023
In this sample chapter from Exam Ref DP-500 Designing and Implementing Enterprise-Scale Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power BI, you will learn how data is queried and transformed with Azure Synapse and Power BI. This chapter covers Skills 2.1 and 2.2 from the DP-500 exam.
- By Bill Jelen, Tracy SyrstadMar 11, 2022
A range in Excel can be a cell, a row, a column, or a grouping of any of these. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), you will explore different ways of referring to ranges, such as specifying a row or column. You’ll also find out how to manipulate cells based on the active cell and how to create a new range from overlapping ranges.
Secure Azure Network architectures
- By Nicholas DiCola, Anthony RomanJun 7, 2021
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Azure Network Security, you will review the best practices of general network architecture, various types of network architectures in Azure, and how network security services can be layered to protect these architectures.
- By Michael Howard, Simone Curzi, Heinrich GantenbeinJun 26, 2023
In this sample chapter from Designing and Developing Secure Azure Solutions learn more about design patterns and the importance of adopting these patterns to improve the secure design of solutions.
- By Haishi BaiAug 24, 2018
In this sample chapter from Programming Microsoft Azure Service Fabric, 2nd Edition, learn how to set up a development environment on Linux, use Java to write a simple Service Fabric application, and more.
- By Paul McFedriesOct 25, 2022
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Teams Step by Step, you will learn how to create a team from scratch, from one of your organization’s predefined team templates, or from an existing team or Microsoft 365 group.
Skill 5.1: Implement Microsoft Teams
- By Orin ThomasApr 6, 2018
In Skill 5.1 from Exam Ref 70-347 Enabling Office 365 Services, 2nd Edition, learn how to configure Office 365 connectors for Microsoft Teams and manage licenses.
- By Itzik Ben-GanNov 4, 2019
In this sample chapter from T-SQL Window Functions: For data analysis and beyond, 2nd Edition, author Itzik Ben-Gan provides extensive coverage of window functions, their optimization, and querying solutions implementing them. This chapter starts by explaining the concept, and it provides a background of window functions, a glimpse of solutions using windows functions, coverage of the elements involved in window specifications, an account of the query elements supporting window functions, and a description of the standard’s solution for reusing window definitions.
- By Cindy M. LewisMar 15, 2022
A project’s schedule or plan is essentially a model that you construct for some project aspects that you’re anticipating—what you expect will happen or what you want to happen. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Project step by Step (covering Project online Desktop Client), you will walk through the procedures related to creating a new plan and setting its start date, setting nonworking days in a project calendar, and entering a plan’s title and other properties.
- By Cindy M. Lewis, Carl Chatfield, Timothy JohnsonMay 25, 2019
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Project 2019 Step by Step, you'll learn to create a new plan using Project A project’s schedule or plan is essentially a model that you construct for some project aspects that you are anticipating—what you expect will happen, or what you want to happen. This model focuses on certain key aspects of a project, such as tasks, resources, time frames, and possible associated costs.
Synopsis of "The Contents of a Requirements Specification"
- By Stephen WithallJun 13, 2007
- There’s no single right way to organize a requirements specification, but certain topics recur in most systems and deserve their own sections. This chapter from Software Requirement Patterns discusses what a requirements specification should contain.
The 5 Principles and 10 Building Blocks of Persuasive Visual Storytelling
- By Cliff AtkinsonNov 22, 2018
In this sample chapter from Beyond Bullet Points: Using PowerPoint to tell a compelling story that gets results, 4th Edition, Cliff Atkinson reviews step-by-step how the Beyond Bullet Points (BBP) Story Template creates a foundation for presentations that you will build upon with narration and graphics.
- By Wayne WinstonDec 20, 2021
The INDEX function makes it easy to reference an entire row or column of an array. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), 7th Edition, you will learn how to use the INDEX function to compute the distance between two cities.
- By Wayne WinstonApr 15, 2019
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling, 6th Edition, author Wayne Winston covers the INDEX function. The INDEX function allows you to return the entry in any row and column within an array of numbers.
The Managed Heap and Garbage Collection in the CLR
- By Jeffrey RichterNov 15, 2012
- Jeffrey Richter explains how the garbage collector in the common language runtime (CLR) works and various performance issues related to it in this chapter from CLR via C#, 4th Edition.
The OWIN OpenID Connect Middleware
- By Vittorio BertocciJan 22, 2016
- This chapter from Modern Authentication with Azure Active Directory for Web Applications will reveal the various layers of the object model for you, showing how you can fine-tune the authentication process to meet your needs.
- By Yuri Diogenes, Tom ShinderOct 5, 2019
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Azure Security Center, 2nd Edition, authors Yuri Diogenes and Tom Shinder discuss cybercrime, the motivation of hackers, and how you can detect and prevent attacks.
- By Dino EspositoApr 17, 2024
Domain-driven design (DDD) has little to do with actual coding, but it is an effective method for exploring and understanding the internal structure of the business domain. Dino Esposito explains what DDD is all about in this sample chapter from Clean Architecture with .NET.
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