T-SQL insiders help you tackle your toughest queries and query-tuning problemsSqueeze 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.

Contents

CHAPTER 1 Logical query processing

CHAPTER 2 Query tuning

CHAPTER 3 Multi-table queries

CHAPTER 4 Grouping, pivoting, and windowing

CHAPTER 5 TOP and OFFSET-FETCH

CHAPTER 6 Data modification

CHAPTER 7 Working with date and time

CHAPTER 8 T-SQL for BI practitioners

CHAPTER 9 Programmable objects

CHAPTER 10 In-Memory OLTP

CHAPTER 11 Graphs and recursive queries