Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying

Take a detailed look at the internal architecture of T-SQL—and unveil the power of set-based querying—with comprehensive reference and advice from the experts. Database developers and administrators get best practices, sample databases, and code to master the intricacies of the programming language—solving complex problems with real-world solutions.
Discover how to:

Understand logical and physical query processing
Apply a methodology to optimize query tuning
Solve relational division problems
Use CTEs and ranking functions to simplify and optimize solutions
Aggregate data with various techniques, including tiebreakers, pivoting, histograms, and grouping factors
Use the TOP option in a query to modify data
Query specialized data structures with recursive logic, materialized path, or nested sets solutions
PLUS—Improve your logic and get to the heart of querying problems with logic puzzles

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