Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days

by Mauer, Lowell

• ISBN13: 9780672319679
• ISBN10: 0672319675
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-08
• Publisher: Sams Publishing

Summary

Sams Teach Yourself Transact-SQL in 21 Days, 2E will teach programmers how to develop Transact-SQL queries. There will be a focus on providing methods for improving productivity without a reducing performance. Specifically, the reader will:Learn Transact-SQL syntax Learn how to add, delete, and modifying data using Transact-SQL Understand coding standards Review variations from ANSI-standard SQL Be presented with basic server operations. Recognize performance issues with queries. This book will also include:Constructs such as CUBE, ROLLUP, CASE, and JOIN. Techniques to solve complex problems How the server uses indexes Methods to write (correctly) stored procedures and triggers. Templates of procedures and triggers (reference) Advanced Topics such as: Outer and self joins Temporary tables Sub-queries.

Author Biography

Lowell Mauer has been in data processing for more than 20 years as a programmer, instructor, and consultant. He has taught programming at Montclair State College in New Jersey and has developed and marketed several Visual Basic applications, including a SQL Server-based reservation system for a private golf course. As a manager of technical support, he has attended seminars and training sessions in several countries and is an expert in more than six computer languages. He currently is the Manager of Consulting for Cognos Corporation in New York.

David Solomon , President of Metis Technologies, LLC: I've been working in, on, and around SQL Server (in its incarnations from Sybase and Microsoft) since 1990, and I can't believe that I can still make a living in this technology. I consult and teach courses on SQL Server, and write books like this one from time to time.

When I'm not wasting my time working, I coach youth soccer enthusiastically. If you come to Troy, you'll probably find me on a soccer field, shouting and chasing kids and pretending I'm one of them.

I save the best of my time for my kids, Adam and Luke, my wife Carola, and my three cats, Lucifer, Sam, and Daisy. Right now, Lucifer is sitting in my desk chair, which leaves me standing.

Bennett McEwan is president of Geist, LLC, a company in scenic upstate New York, specializing in explaining SQL Server. The work Ben enjoys most is mentoring, where he helps programmers or database administrators through the tough spots in mission-critical applications.

Ben also teaches SQL Server training classes, writes, and designs Visual Basic client/ server applications, and consults on difficult SQL Server performance issues. You can catch him on comp.databases.ms-sqlserver and in the pages of Microsoft SQL Server Professional (Pinnacle Publishing).

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(5)
Working with Rows and Columns	5	(206)
Introduction to SQL and the Query Analyzer	7	(22)
Filtering and Sorting Data	29	(40)
Working with Columns	69	(30)
Working with Row Aggregates and Grouping	99	(38)
Joining Tables	137	(44)
Using Subqueries	181	(14)
Adding, Changing, and Deleting Rows	195	(16)
In Review	211	(2)
Programming with T-SQL	213	(198)
Defining Data	215	(28)
Indexes and Performance	243	(32)
Views and Temporary Tables	275	(32)
T-SQL Programming Fundamentals	307	(26)
Understanding Database Locking	333	(34)
Programming with Transactions	367	(24)
Using Cursors	391	(20)
In Review	411	(2)
Procedures and Triggers	413	(146)
Writing and Executing Stored Procedures	415	(24)
Optimizing Stored Procedures	439	(24)
Debugging Stored Procedures	463	(24)
Writing and Testing Triggers	487	(20)
Solving Special Trigger Problems	507	(24)
User-Defined Functions in SQL	531	(14)
Handling BLOBs in T-SQL	545	(14)
In Review	559	(2)
Appendix A Answers to Quizzes and Exercises	561	(38)
Index	599