Overview
Introducing SQL Server teaches the knowledge and skills needed to begin your journey toward becoming a solid and competent SQL Server professional and database programmer.
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Do you quake at the sight of a SELECT statement? Start to shiver when people start talking about tables and rows? Fear not, Introducing SQL Server is here to rescue you. The book focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to begin your journey toward becoming a solid and competent SQL Server professional and database programmer. You’ll learn the core concepts of SQL Server, from installing the software to executing and profiling queries.
Introducing SQL Server is aimed at SQL Server newcomers as well as at those wanting to improve their database skills. You’ll put a comprehensive database together as you work through the book. You will create tables and learn to use constraints; create reusable functions and stored procedures; and even learn how indexes work and what they bring in terms of increased performance. Introducing SQL Server shows you that databases don’t need to be difficult.
• Teaches you how to build a SQL Server database from scratch
• Takes a tutorial-based approach, with each chapter building on the last
• Covers what you need to know for common SQL Server development tasks
About the author
Mike McQuillan is a software and database specialist who lives with his wife and daughter in the United Kingdom. Mike is a polyglot programmer who began messing around with computers in the 1980s, firstly with an Atari 800XL and then a Sinclair Spectrum. He took up databases in the 1990s, and quickly fell in love with SQL. He’s been working with SQL Server since version 7, and is a SQL Server MCSA. When he’s not tinkering with computers, Mike enjoys taking the family on walks around Cheshire with the family pups, Dolly and Bertie.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introducing SQL Server
Authors: Mike McQuillan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1419-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Mike McQuillan 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-1420-6Published: 02 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-1419-0Published: 30 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 388
Number of Illustrations: 282 b/w illustrations
Topics: Database Management
Industry Sectors: Aerospace, Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Electronics, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, IT & Software, Law, Telecommunications