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SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials

SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials

By : A. Masood-Al-Farooq
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SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials

SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials

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By: A. Masood-Al-Farooq
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Overview of this book

This book is an easy-to-follow, comprehensive guide that is full of hands-on examples, which you can follow to successfully design, build, and deploy mission-critical database applications with SQL Server 2014. If you are a database developer, architect, or administrator who wants to learn how to design, implement, and deliver a successful database solution with SQL Server 2014, then this book is for you. Existing users of Microsoft SQL Server will also benefit from this book as they will learn what's new in the latest version.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Microsoft SQL Server Database Design Principles
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1. Microsoft SQL Server Database Design Principles
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Database design
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Table design
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Relationships
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Data integrity
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The basics of data normalization
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The SQL Server database architecture
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The importance of choosing the appropriate data type
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Summary
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2. Understanding DDL and DCL Statements in SQL Server
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2. Understanding DDL and DCL Statements in SQL Server
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Understanding the DDL, DCL, and DML language elements
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Understanding the purpose of SQL Server 2014 system databases
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An overview of database recovery models
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Creating and modifying databases
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Creating and managing database schemas
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Creating and managing tables
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Grant, deny, and revoke permissions to securables
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Summary
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3. Data Retrieval Using Transact-SQL Statements
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3. Data Retrieval Using Transact-SQL Statements
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Understanding Transact-SQL SELECT, FROM, and WHERE clauses
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Using T-SQL functions in the query
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Multiple table queries using UNION, EXCEPT, INTERSECT, and JOINs
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Subqueries
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Common Table Expressions
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Organizing and grouping data
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Using the Transact-SQL analytic window functions
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Summary
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4. Data Modification with SQL Server Transact-SQL Statements
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4. Data Modification with SQL Server Transact-SQL Statements
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Inserting data into SQL Server database tables
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Updating data in SQL Server database tables
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Deleting data from SQL Server database tables
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Using the MERGE statement
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The TRUNCATE TABLE statement
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The SELECT INTO statement
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5. Understanding Advanced Database Programming Objects and Error Handling
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5. Understanding Advanced Database Programming Objects and Error Handling
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Creating and using variables
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Control-of-flow keywords
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Creating and using views
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Creating and using stored procedures
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Creating and using user-defined functions
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Creating and using triggers
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Handling Transact-SQL errors
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6. Performance Basics
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6. Performance Basics
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Components of SQL Server Database Engine
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The SQL Server 2014 in-memory OLTP engine
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Indexes
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Query optimization statistics
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The fundamentals of transactions
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SQL Server 2014 tools for monitoring and troubleshooting SQL Server performance
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Multiple table queries using UNION, EXCEPT, INTERSECT, and JOINs

So far in this book, we have seen queries that only retrieve data from a single table. However, in the real world, it is very unlikely that you will write queries that only refer to a single table. In practice, the requirement might be to retrieve data from multiple tables. SQL Server 2014 provides several options to create queries that return data from multiple tables. In this section, we will explore these options.

The UNION operator

The UNION operator is used to combine the result sets of two or more SELECT statements to generate a single result set. The following is the basic syntax for using the UNION operator:

select_statement UNION [ALL] select_statement
[UNION [ALL] select_statement […n]]

The key point to remember is that all statements combined using the UNION operator must have the same number of columns and must have compatible data types. The column names of the first SELECT statement are used as headings for the result...

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