Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying

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

• Author
• Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, Lubor Kollar, Steve Kass

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 798

• Publisher
• Microsoft Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780735626034

• Genres
• reference, programming, technical

• Release date
• 2009