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Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer's Guide is every developer's key to making full use of SQL Server 2012's powerful, built-in Transact-SQL language. Discussing new and existing features, the book takes you on an expert guided tour of Transact-SQL functionality. Fully functioning examples and downloadable source code bring technically accurate and engaging treatment of Transact-SQL into your own hands. Step-by-step explanations ensure clarity, and an advocacy of best-practices will steer you down the road to success.
Transact-SQL is the language developers and DBAs use to interact with SQL Server. It's used for everything from querying data, to writing stored procedures, to managing the database. New features in T-SQL 2012 include full support for window functions, stored sequences, the ability to throw errors, data paging, and more. All these important new features are covered in this book. Developers and DBAs alike can benefit from the expressive power of Transact-SQL, and Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer's Guide provides the gateway to success in applying this increasingly important database language to everyday business and technical tasks.
List of contents
- Foundations of T-SQL
- Tools of the Trade
- Procedural Code and CASE Expressions
- User Defined Functions
- Stored Procedures
- Triggers
- Encryption
- Common Table Expressions
- Advanced Features
- Integrated Full-Text Search
- XML
- XQuery and XPath
- Catalog Views and Dynamic Management Views
- SQL CLR Programming
- .NET Client Programming
- Data Services
- Error Handling and Dynamic SQL
- Performance Monitoring and Tuning
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
About the author
Michael Coles is a Microsoft MVP (SQL) with over 15 years experience designing and developing mission-critical SQL Server databases and data-driven systems in the real world. A prolific writer of books and articles on all aspects of SQL Server development, he holds multiple Microsoft certifications and a bachelor s of science degree in Information Technology. Most recently Michael authored the Apress books Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer s Guide and Pro Full-Text Search In SQL Server 2008.
Summary
Pro T–SQL 2012 Programmer’s Guide is every developer’s key to making full use of SQL Server 2012’s powerful, built–in Transact–SQL language. Discussing new and existing features, the book takes you on an expert guided tour of Transact–SQL functionality. Fully functioning examples and downloadable source code bring technically accurate and engaging treatment of Transact–SQL into your own hands. Step–by–step explanations ensure clarity, and an advocacy of best–practices will steer you down the road to success. Transact–SQL is the language developers and DBAs use to interact with SQL Server. It’s used for everything from querying data, to writing stored procedures, to managing the database. New features in T-SQL 2012 include full support for window functions, stored sequences, the ability to throw errors, data paging, and more. All these important new features are covered in this book. Developers and DBAs alike can benefit from the expressive power of Transact-SQL, and Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer's Guide provides the gateway to success in applying this increasingly important database language to everyday business and technical tasks.
