Tackle the toughest set-based querying and query tuning problems—guided by an author team with in-depth, inside knowledge of T-SQL. Deepen your understanding of architecture and internals—and gain practical approaches and advanced techniques to optimize your code’s performance.
Discover how to:
Move from procedural programming to the language of sets and logic
Optimize query tuning with a top-down methodology
Assess algorithmic complexity to predict performance
Compare data-aggregation techniques, including new grouping sets
Manage data modification—insert, delete, update, merge—for performance
Write more efficient queries against partitioned tables
Work with graphs, trees, hierarchies, and recursive queries
Plus—Use pure-logic puzzles to sharpen your problem-solving skills
- ISBN10 0735636400
- ISBN13 9780735636408
- Publish Date 25 March 2009 (first published 1 March 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Microsoft Press,U.S.
- Format eBook
- Pages 825
- Language English