Language: English
Author: Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, Grega Jerkich
Updating both Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Querying (Microsoft Press, 2009) and parts of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Programming (Microsoft Press, 2009), the book gives database developers and administrators a detailed look at the internal architecture of T-SQL and a comprehensive programming reference. Tackle the toughest set-based querying and query tuning problems—guided by an author team with in-depth, inside knowledge of T-SQL.
Description
Deepen your understanding of architecture and internals—and gain practical approaches and advanced techniques to optimize your code’s performance. The book covers many unique techniques that were developed, improved, and polished by the authors over many years of experience, providing highly efficient solutions for common challenges. There’s a deep focus on the performance and efficiency of the techniques and solutions that are covered. The book emphasizes correct understanding of the language and its underlying mathematical foundations.
Who should read this book
This book is designed to help experienced T-SQL practitioners become more knowledgeable and efficient in this field. The book’s target audience is T-SQL developers, DBAs, BI pros, data scientists, and anyone who is serious about T-SQL. Its main purpose is to prepare you for real-life needs, as far as T-SQL is concerned. Its main focus is not to help you pass certification exams. That said, it just so happens that the book covers many of the topics that exams 70-461 and 70-464 test you on. So, even though you shouldn’t consider this book as the only learning tool to prepare for these exams, it is certainly a tool that will help you in this process.
Assumptions
This book assumes that you have at least a year of solid experience working with SQL Server, writing and tuning T-SQL code. It assumes that you have a good grasp of T-SQL coding and tuning fundamentals, and that you are ready to tackle more advanced challenges. This book could still be relevant to you if you have similar experience with a different database platform and its dialect of SQL, but actual knowledge and experience with SQL Server and T-SQL is preferred.
