Exam Ref 70-761 Querying Data with Transact-SQL

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-761–and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of SQL Server 2016 Transact-SQL data management, queries, and database programming. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Filter, sort, join, aggregate, and modify data

• Use subqueries, table expressions, grouping sets, and pivoting

• Query temporal and non-relational data, and output XML or JSON

• Create views, user-defined functions, and stored procedures

• Implement error handling, transactions, data types, and nulls

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives

• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you

• Assumes you have experience working with SQL Server as a database administrator, system engineer, or developer

• Includes downloadable sample database and code for SQL Server 2016 SP1 (or later) and Azure SQL Database

Querying Data with Transact-SQL

About the Exam

Exam 70-761 focuses on the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and query data and to program databases

with Transact-SQL in SQL Server 2016.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam earns you credit toward a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) certification that demonstrates your mastery of essential skills for building and implementing on-premises and cloud-based databases across organizations. Exam 70-762 (Developing SQL Databases) is also required for MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Development certification.

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Itzik Ben-Gan, mentor and cofounder of SolidQ, authored its Advanced T-SQL and T-SQL Fundamentals courses. A Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 1999, he has delivered T-SQL querying, tuning, and programming training worldwide. His books include T-SQL Querying and T-SQL Fundamentals.