T-SQL Querying (Developer Reference)

**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