Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying

Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying
ISBN-10
0735626030
ISBN-13
9780735626034
Category
Computers / Languages / SQL
Pages
798
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Microsoft Press
Author
Itzik Ben-Gan

Description

Tackle the toughest set-based querying and query tuning problems--guided by an author team with in-depth, inside knowledge of T-SQL. Deepen your understanding of architecture and internals--and gain practical approaches and advanced techniques to optimize your code's performance.

Discover how to:

  • Move from procedural programming to the language of sets and logic
  • Optimize query tuning with a top-down methodology
  • Assess algorithmic complexity to predict performance
  • Compare data-aggregation techniques, including new grouping sets
  • Manage data modification--insert, delete, update, merge--for performance
  • Write more efficient queries against partitioned tables
  • Work with graphs, trees, hierarchies, and recursive queries
  • Plus--Use pure-logic puzzles to sharpen your problem-solving skills

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