SQL Server T-SQL Recipes, 4th Edition

SQL Server T-SQL Recipes is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server. This edition has been lightly updated for SQL Server 2014 and provides ready-to-implement solutions to common programming and database administration tasks. Learn to create databases, create in-memory tables and stored procedures, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Tasks and their solutions are broken down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on.

Solutions in this book are divided into chapters by problem domain. Each chapter is a collection of solutions around a single facet of the language such as writing queries, managing indexes, error handling, and query performance. Each solution is presented code-first, giving you a working code example to copy from and implement immediately in your own environment. Following each example is an in-depth description of how and why the given solution works. Tradeoffs and alternative approaches are also discussed.

• Focused on solutions: Look up what you need to do. Learn how to do it. Do it.
• Current: Lightly updated for SQL Server 2014
• Comprehensive: Covers all common T-SQL problem domains

What you’ll learn

• Create databases, tables, and indexes
• Query and manipulate data
• Move business logic into the database
• Build reports that matter to your business.
• Perform common backup and recovery tasks
• Take advantage of window functions in your SQL

Who this book is for

SQL Server T-SQL Recipes is aimed at technically-oriented users of SQL Server desiring to extract the full power of the platform through it’s powerful, built-in programming and scripting language. Target readers include developers who use SQL Server as their back–end database platform, and the database administrators who create, manage, and secure those databases.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started with SELECT
Chapter 2. Elementary Programming
Chapter 3. Working with NULLS
Chapter 4. Combining Data from Multiple Tables
Chapter 5. Aggregations and Grouping
Chapter 6. Advanced SELECT Techniques
Chapter 7. Windowing
Chapter 8. Inserting, Updating, Deleting
Chapter 9. Working with Strings
Chapter 10. Working with Dates
Chapter 11. Working with Numbers
Chapter 12. Transactions, Locking, Blocking, Deadlockin
Chapter 13. Managing Tables
Chapter 14. Managing Views
Chapter 15. Managing Indexes
Chapter 16. Managing Large Tables
Chapter 17. Stored Procedures
Chapter 18. User-Defined Functions
Chapter 19. In-Memory T-SQL
Chapter 20. Triggers
Chapter 21. Error Handling
Chapter 22. Query Performance
Chapter 23. Hints
Chapter 24. Index Tuning and Statistics
Chapter 25. XML
Chapter 26. Files, Filegroups, and Integrity
Chapter 27. Backup
Chapter 28. Recovery
Chapter 29. Principals and Users
Chapter 30. Securables and Permissions
Chapter 31. Objects and Dependencies