Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions
Apply powerful window functions in T-SQL—and increase the performance and speed of your queries
Optimize your queries—and obtain simple and elegant solutions to a variety of problems—using window functions in Transact-SQL. Led by T-SQL expert Itzik Ben-Gan, you’ll learn how to apply calculations against sets of rows in a flexible, clear, and efficient manner. Ideal whether you’re a database administrator or developer, this practical guide demonstrates ways to use more than a dozen T-SQL querying solutions to address common business tasks.
Discover how to:
- Go beyond traditional query approaches to express set calculations more efficiently
- Delve into ordered set functions such as rank, distribution, and offset
- Implement hypothetical set and inverse distribution functions in standard SQL
- Use strategies for improving sequencing, paging, filtering, and pivoting
- Increase query speed using partitioning, ordering, and coverage indexing
- Apply new optimization iterators such as Window Spool
- Handle common issues such as running totals, intervals, medians, and gaps
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. SQL Windowing
Chapter 2. A Detailed Look at Window Functions
Chapter 3. Ordered Set Functions
Chapter 4. Optimization of Window Functions
Chapter 5. T-SQL Solutions Using Window Functions
Book Details
- Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press (April 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0735658366
- ISBN-13: 978-0735658363
