T-SQL Querying

T-SQL insiders help you tackle your toughest queries and query-tuning problems
Squeeze maximum performance and efficiency from every T-SQL query you write or tune. Four leading experts take an in-depth look at T-SQL’s internal architecture and offer advanced practical techniques for optimizing response time and resource usage. Emphasizing a correct understanding of the language and its foundations, the authors present unique solutions they have spent years developing and refining. All code and techniques are fully updated to reflect new T-SQL enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2012.

Write faster, more efficient T-SQL code:

• Move from procedural programming to the language of sets and logic
• Master an efficient top-down tuning methodology
• Assess algorithmic complexity to predict performance
• Compare data aggregation techniques, including new grouping sets
• Efficiently perform data-analysis calculations
• Make the most of T-SQL’s optimized bulk import tools
• Avoid date/time pitfalls that lead to buggy, poorly performing code
• Create optimized BI statistical queries without additional software
• Use programmable objects to accelerate queries
• Unlock major performance improvements with In-Memory OLTP
• Master useful and elegant approaches to manipulating graphs

About This Book

• For experienced T-SQL practitioners
• Includes coverage updated from Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Querying and Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Programming
• Valuable to developers, DBAs, BI professionals, and data scientists
• Covers many MCSE 70-464 and MCSA/MCSE 70-461 exam topics

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Logical query processing
CHAPTER 2 Query tuning
CHAPTER 3 Multi-table queries
CHAPTER 4 Grouping, pivoting, and windowing
CHAPTER 5 TOP and OFFSET-FETCH
CHAPTER 6 Data modification
CHAPTER 7 Working with date and time
CHAPTER 8 T-SQL for BI practitioners
CHAPTER 9 Programmable objects
CHAPTER 10 In-Memory OLTP
CHAPTER 11 Graphs and recursive queries