T-SQL Querying (Repost)

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