SQL Server T-SQL Recipes is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server. This edition has been lightly updated for SQL Server 2014 and provides ready-to-implement solutions to common programming and database administration tasks. Learn to create databases, create in-memory tables and stored procedures, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Tasks and their solutions are broken down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on.

Solutions in this book are divided into chapters by problem domain. Each chapter is a collection of solutions around a single facet of the language such as writing queries, managing indexes, error handling, and query performance. Each solution is presented code-first, giving you a working code example to copy from and implement immediately in your own environment. Following each example is an in-depth description of how and why the given solution works. Tradeoffs and alternative approaches are also discussed.

Focused on solutions: Look up what you need to do. Learn how to do it. Do it.Current: Lightly updated for SQL Server 2014Comprehensive: Covers all common T-SQL problem domains

David Dye is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, instructor, and author specializing in relational database management systems, business intelligence systems, reporting solutions, and Microsoft SharePoint. For the past 9 years David's expertise has been focused on Microsoft SQL Server development and administration. His work has earned him recognition as: a Microsoft MVP in 2009 and 2010, a moderator for the Microsoft Developer Network for SQL Server forums, Innovator of the Year runner-up in 2009 by SQL Server Magazine, and in the Training Associates Technical Trainer Spotlight in April 2011. David currently serves as a technical reviewer and co-author with APress Publishing in the SQL Server 2012 series, and as an author with Packt Publishing.

1. Getting Started with SELECT

2. Elementary Programming

3. Working with NULLS

4. Combining Data from Multiple Tables

5. Aggregations and Grouping

6. Advanced SELECT Techniques

7. Windowing

8. Inserting, Updating, Deleting

9. Working with Strings

10. Working with Dates

11. Working with Numbers

12. Transactions, Locking, Blocking, Deadlockin

13. Managing Tables

14. Managing Views

15. Managing Indexes

16. Managing Large Tables

17. Stored Procedures

18. User-Defined Functions

19. In-Memory T-SQL

20. Triggers

21. Error Handling

22. Query Performance

23. Hints

24. Index Tuning and Statistics

25. XML

26. Files, Filegroups, and Integrity

27. Backup

28. Recovery

29. Principals and Users

30. Securables and Permissions

31. Objects and Dependencies