Take a detailed look at the internal architecture of T-SQL—and unveil the power of set-based querying—with comprehensive reference and advice from the experts. Database developers and administrators get best practices, sample databases, and code to master the intricacies of the programming language—solving complex problems with real-world solutions. Discover how to: <ul>
<li>Understand logical and physical query processing</li> <li>Apply a methodology to optimize query tuning</li> <li>Solve relational division problems</li> <li>Use CTEs and ranking functions to simplify and optimize solutions</li> <li>Aggregate data with various techniques, including tiebreakers, pivoting, histograms, and grouping factors</li> <li>Use the TOP option in a query to modify data</li> <li>Query specialized data structures with recursive logic, materialized path, or nested sets solutions</li> <li>PLUS—Improve your logic and get to the heart of querying problems with logic puzzles</li> </ul>
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Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying

Computers & Technology

Itzik Ben-Gan

Lubor Kollar

Dejan Sarka

Operating Systems

Microsoft Press

Get a detailed look at the internal architecture of T-SQL with this comprehensive programming reference. Database developers and administrators get best practices, expert techniques, and code samples to master the intricacies of this programming language—solving complex problems with real-world solutions. Discover how to: <ul>
<li>Work with T-SQL and CLR user-defined functions, stored procedures, and triggers.</li> <li>Handle transactions, concurrency, and error handling.</li> <li>Efficiently use temporary objects, including temporary tables, table variables, and table expressions.</li> <li>Evaluate when to use set-based programming techniques and when to use cursors.</li> <li>Work with dynamic SQL in an efficient and secure manner.</li> <li>Treat date- and time-related data in a robust manner.</li> <li>Develop CLR user-defined types and learn about temporal support in the relational model.</li> <li>Use XML and XQuery and implement a dynamic schema solution.</li> <li>Work with spatial data using the new geometry and geography types and spatial indexes.</li> <li>Track access and changes to data using extended events, SQL Server Audit, change tracking, and change data capture.</li> <li>Use Service Broker for controlled asynchronous processing in database applications.</li> </ul>
All the book’s code samples will be available for download from the companion Web site.

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Programming (Pro-developer)

Greg Low

Roger Wolter

Ed Katibah

Isaac Kunen

Tackle the toughest set-based querying and query tuning problems—guided by an author team with in-depth, inside knowledge of T-SQL. Deepen your understanding of architecture and internals—and gain practical approaches and advanced techniques to optimize your code’s performance. Discover how to: <ul>
<li>Move from procedural programming to the language of sets and logic</li> <li>Optimize query tuning with a top-down methodology </li> <li>Assess algorithmic complexity to predict performance</li> <li>Compare data-aggregation techniques, including new grouping sets </li> <li>Manage data modification—insert, delete, update, merge—for performance</li> <li>Write more efficient queries against partitioned tables</li> <li>Work with graphs, trees, hierarchies, and recursive queries</li> <li>Plus—Use pure-logic puzzles to sharpen your problem-solving skills</li>
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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying

Steve Kass

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals(Chinese Edition)

Programming

人民邮电出版社

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