Pro T-SQL Programmer’s Guide

Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide

4th Edition

Miguel Cebollero Jay Natarajan Michael Coles

Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide

Copyright ? 2015 by Miguel Cebollero, Jay Natarajan, and Michael Coles

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Contents at a Glance

About the Authors.xxiii About the Technical Reviewer.xxv Acknowledgmentsxxvii Introductionxxix Chapter 1: Foundations of T-SQL 1 Chapter 2: Tools of the Trade 19 Chapter 3: Procedural Code 47 Chapter 4: User-Defined Functions 79 Chapter 5: Stored Procedures 111 Chapter 6: In-Memory Programming 153 Chapter 7: Triggers 177 Chapter 8: Encryption 207 Chapter 9: Common Table Expressions and Windowing Functions 233 Chapter 10: Data Types and Advanced Data Types 269 Chapter 11: Full-Text Search 317 Chapter 12: XML 347 Chapter 13: XQuery and XPath 387 Chapter 14: Catalog Views and Dynamic aent Views 433 Chapter 15: .NET Client Programming 461 Chapter 16: CLR Integration Programming 511

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Chapter 17: Data Services 559 Chapter 18: Error Handling and Dynamic SQL 589 Chapter 19: Performance Tuning 613 Appendix A: Exercise Answers 653 Appendix B: XQuery Data Types 663 Appendix C: Glossary 669 Appendix D: SQLCMD Quick Reference 683 Index 693

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About the Authors.xxiii About the Technical Reviewer.xxv Acknowledgmentsxxvii Introductionxxix

Chapter 1: Foundations of T-SQL 1 A Short History of T-SQL 1 Imperative vs. Declarative Languages 1 SQL Basics 3

Statements 3 Databases 5 Transaction Logs 5 Schemas 6 Tables 7 Views 8 Indexes 9 Stored Procedures 10 User-Defined Functions 10 SQL CLR Assemblies 10

Elements of Style 10

Whitespace 11 Naming Conventions 12 One Entry, One Exit 13

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