Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (Solid Quality Learning)

Itzik Ben-Gan

ISBN 10: 0735623139 / ISBN 13: 9780735623132

Published by Microsoft Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL ...

Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

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:

• Understand logical and physical query processing
• Apply a methodology to optimize query tuning
• Solve relational division problems
• Use CTEs and ranking functions to simplify and optimize solutions
• Aggregate data with various techniques, including tiebreakers, pivoting, histograms, and grouping factors
• Use the TOP option in a query to modify data
• Query specialized data structures with recursive logic, materialized path, or nested sets solutions
• PLUS—Improve your logic and get to the heart of querying problems with logic puzzles

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From the Publisher:

Key Book Benefits: -Delivers practical, hands-on guidance on sophisticated uses of T-SQL, including the differences between logical and physical processing, nesting of queries, and much more -Provides deep background information that helps developers optimize queries, aggregate data, and develop hierarchies and recursive queries -Helps promote mastery of T-SQL -Features numerous code and table examples, practical advice, logic puzzles, and best practices