Microsoft Press</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>T-SQL insiders help you tackle your toughest queries and query-tuning problems</b> <br>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.<br> <br> <b>Write faster?? more efficient T-SQL code:</b> <br> <ul> <li>Move from procedural programming to the language of sets and logic</li> <li>Master an efficient top-down tuning methodology</li> <li>Assess algorithmic complexity to predict performance</li> <li>Compare data aggregation techniques?? including new grouping sets</li> <li>Efficiently perform data-analysis calculations</li> <li>Make the most of T-SQL??s optimized bulk import tools</li> <li>Avoid date/time pitfalls that lead to buggy?? poorly performing c