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Pro T–SQL Programmer´s Guide is your guide to making the best use of the powerful, Transact-SQL programming language that is built into Microsoft SQL Server´s database engine. This edition is updated to cover the new, in-memory features that are part of SQL Server 2014. Discussing new and existing features, the book takes you on an expert guided tour of Transact–SQL functionality. Fully functioning examples and downloadable source code bring technically accurate and engaging treatment of Transact–SQL into your own hands. Step–by–step explanations ensure clarity, and an advocacy of best–practices will steer you down the road to success.
Transact–SQL is the language developers and DBAs use to interact with SQL Server. It´s used for everything from querying data, to writing stored procedures, to managing the database. Support for in-memory stored procedures running queries against in-memory tables is new in the language and gets coverage in this edition. Also covered are must-know features such as window functions and data paging that help in writing fast-performing database queries. Developers and DBAs alike can benefit from the expressive power of T-SQL, and Pro T-SQL Programmer´s Guide is your roadmap to success in applying this increasingly important database language to everyday business and technical tasks.
Covers the newly-introduced, in-memory database features
Shares the best practices used by experienced professionals
Goes deeply into the subject matter − an advanced book for the serious reader

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1. Foundations of T-SQL
2. Tools of the Trade
3. Procedural Code and CASE Expressions
4. User Defined Functions
5. Stored Procedures
6. In-memory Database Programming
7. Triggers
8. Encryption
9. Common Table Expressions
10. Advanced Features
11. Integrated Full-Text Search
12. XML
13. XQuery and XPath
14. Catalog Views and Dynamic Management Views
15. SQL CLR Programming
16. .NET Client Programming
17. Data Services
18. Error Handling and Dynamic SQL
19. Performance Monitoring and Tuning
20. Appendix A
21. Appendix B
22. Appendix C
23. Appendix D

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Jay Natarajan has more than 15 years of experience in the SQL Server space. Her skills range in both the design and the implementation arenas, having architected and deployed complex solutions for enterprise customers. She joined Microsoft Consulting Services in 2008. She holds a bachelor´s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Madras. Jay currently lives in Atlanta with her husband, Chad, and their son Satya.

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