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Preface
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What this book covers
Chapter 1, Microsoft SQL Server Database Design Principles, explains the database
design process and the architecture and working of the SQL Server 2014 Storage
Engine. This chapter covers the database development life cycle in detail, including
the normalization and denormalization process, benets of choosing appropriate
data types, and the functioning of the SQL Server 2014 Storage Engine.
Chapter 2, Understanding DDL and DCL Statements in SQL Server, introduces the
reader to the SQL Server 2014 Transact-SQL language elements and SQL Server 2014
Management Studio (SSMS 2014). This chapter explains Transact-SQL DDL, DCL, and
DML language elements in detail, and how you can use them to create, manage, and
secure SQL Server 2014 databases, schemas, and tables. This chapter also shows you
how you can use SQL Server Management Studio to create and manage SQL Server
2014 databases, schemas, and tables. Finally, this chapter covers the purpose of SQL
Server 2014 system databases and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of
database recovery models.
Chapter 3, Data Retrieval Using Transact-SQL Statements, demonstrates how to query
data from tables, how to write multiple table queries, and how to group, organize, and
pivot result set data. This chapter explores the basic form of the SELECT statement and
how it can be used to query data from tables. This chapter also highlights the different
categories of built-in T-SQL functions and how you can use them in your SELECT
statements. This chapter also explains different techniques that you can use to combine
data from multiple tables, how to organize the data, and how to generate the summary
data by grouping or pivoting it. Finally, this chapter covers the purpose of the CTE and
SQL Server 2014 windowing functions and how to use them to quickly solve complex
analytical tasks.
Chapter 4, Data Modication with SQL Server Transact-SQL Statements, illustrates how
to add, modify, and delete data in tables using Transact-SQL DML statements.
This chapter covers how to add data to a table using the INSERT statement, how to
delete the data using the DELETE statement, and how to update existing data using
the UPDATE statement. This chapter also covers the SELECT…INTO, MERGE, and
TRUNCATE TABLE statements, and it highlights the key new enhancements of
these statements in SQL Server 2014.
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