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