Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: T-SQL Programming

This thorough, hands-on reference for database developers and administrators delivers expert guidance on sophisticated uses of T-SQL—one of the most familiar and most powerful programming languages for SQL Server. Written by a T-SQL guru, this guide focuses on language features and how exactly they are interpreted and processed by the SQL Server execution engine. You’ll get in-depth coverage of the sophisticated uses of T-SQL, including triggers, user-defined functions, exception handling, and more. The book explains and compares solutions to database-development problems in both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005, discussing the new T-SQL programming features added to the product in SQL Server 2005 in detail. Includes extensive code samples, table examples, and logic puzzles to help database developers and administrators understand the intricacies and help promote mastery of T-SQL.

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