Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming

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Get up to speed on the extensive changes to the newest release of Microsoft SQL Server

The 2012 release of Microsoft SQL Server changes how you develop applications for SQL Server. With this comprehensive resource, SQL Server authority Robert Vieira presents the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, and then shows you how to apply these concepts using the updated SQL Server. Publishing time and date with the 2012 release, Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming begins with a quick overview of database design basics and the SQL query language and then quickly proceeds to show you how to implement the fundamental concepts of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

You’ll explore the key additions and changes to this newest version, including conditional action constructs, enhanced controls for results paging, application integration with SharePoint and Excel, and development of BI applications.

Covers new features such as SQL Azure for cloud computing, client-connectivity enhancements, security and compliance, data replication, and data warehouse performance improvements
Addresses essential topics including managing keys, writing scripts, and working with store procedures
Shares helpful techniques for creating and changing tables, programming with XML, and using SQL Server Reporting and Integration Services

Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming demystifies even the most difficult challenges you may face with the new version of Microsoft SQL Server.

From the Back Cover
Get the tools to change the way you develop database applications

This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create more productivemanagement applications and gain business intelligence from your SQLServer database environment. You’ll learn the foundation objects of SQL and basic queries and joins. You’ll then add objects to your database and use items that are important to the physical design. Next, you’ll explore SQL Server scripting. By the end, you’ll have gained the necessary skills to build a world-class database for your world-class application, using the full capabilities of SQL Server 2012.

Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming:

Explores the key concepts for developing SQL Server applications, including conditional action constructs, enhanced controls for results paging, application integration with SharePoint and Excel, and the development of Business Intelligence applications
Walks you through client-connectivity enhancements, security and compliance, and data warehouse performance improvements
Addresses essential topics including managing keys, writing scripts, and working with stored procedures
Shares helpful techniques for creating and changing tables, programming with XML, and using SQL Server Reporting and Integration Services

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. RDBMS Basics: What Makes Up a SQL Server Database?
Chapter 2. Learning the Tools of the Trade
Chapter 3. The Foundation Statements of T-SQL
Chapter 4. JOINs
Chapter 5. Creating and Altering Tables
Chapter 6. Keys and Constraints
Chapter 7. Adding More to Your Queries
Chapter 8. Being Normal: Normalization and Other Basic Design Issues
Chapter 9. SQL Server Storage and Index Structures
Chapter 10. Views
Chapter 11. Writing Scripts and Batches
Chapter 12. Stored Procedures
Chapter 13. User-Defi ned Functions
Chapter 14. Transactions and Locks
Chapter 15. Triggers
Chapter 16. A Brief XML Primer
Chapter 17. Business Intelligence Fundamentals
Chapter 18. BI Storage and Reporting Resources
Chapter 19. Reporting for Duty, Sir! A Look at Reporting Services
Chapter 20. Getting Integrated with Integration Services
Chapter 21. Playing Administrator