Get a detailed look at the internal architecture of T-SQL with this comprehensive programming reference. Database developers and administrators get best practices, expert techniques, and code samples to master the intricacies of this programming language—solving complex problems with real-world solutions.
Discover how to:
Work with T-SQL and CLR user-defined functions, stored procedures, and triggers.
Handle transactions, concurrency, and error handling.
Efficiently use temporary objects, including temporary tables, table variables, and table expressions.
Evaluate when to use set-based programming techniques and when to use cursors.
Work with dynamic SQL in an efficient and secure manner.
Treat date- and time-related data in a robust manner.
Develop CLR user-defined types and learn about temporal support in the relational model.
Use XML and XQuery and implement a dynamic schema solution.
Work with spatial data using the new geometry and geography types and spatial indexes.
Track access and changes to data using extended events, SQL Server Audit, change tracking, and change data capture.
Use Service Broker for controlled asynchronous processing in database applications.
All the book’s code samples will be available for download from the companion Web site.
Table of Contents:
Dedication
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Views
Chapter 2: User-Defined Functions
Chapter 3: Stored Procedures
Chapter 4: Triggers
Chapter 5: Transactions and Concurrency
Chapter 6: Error Handling
Chapter 7: Temporary Tables and Table Variables
Chapter 8: Cursors
Chapter 9: Dynamic SQL
Chapter 10: Working with Date and Time
Chapter 11: CLR User-Defined Types
Chapter 12: Temporal Support in the Relational Model
Chapter 13: XML and XQuery
Chapter 14: Spatial Data
Chapter 15: Tracking Access and Changes to Data
Chapter 16: Service Broker
Companion to CLR Routines
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