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

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

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