Microsoft SQL Server 2016: A Beginner's Guide, Sixth Edition

  • 11h 18m
  • Dušan Petković
  • McGraw-Hill/Osborne
  • 2017

Get up and running on Microsoft SQL Server 2016 in no time with help from this thoroughly revised, practical resource. The book offers thorough coverage of SQL management and development and features full details on the newest business intelligence, reporting, and security features.

Filled with new real-world examples and hands-on exercises, Microsoft SQL Server 2016: A Beginner's Guide, Sixth Edition, starts by explaining fundamental relational database system concepts. From there, you will learn how to write Transact-SQL statements, execute simple and complex database queries, handle system administration and security, and use the powerful analysis and BI tools. XML, spatial data, and full-text search are also covered in this step-by-step tutorial.

  • Revised from the ground up to cover the latest version of SQL Server
  • Ideal both as a self-study guide and a classroom textbook
  • Written by a prominent professor and best-selling author

About the Author

Dusan Petkovic (Rosenheim, Germany) is a professor in the computer science department at the Polytechnic in Rosenheim, Germany. He is the best-selling author of 5 editions of SQL Server: A Beginner’s Guide and has authored numerous articles for SQL Server Magazine and technical papers for Embarcadero.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • Relational Database Systems—An Introduction
  • Planning the Installation and Installing SQL Server
  • SQL Server Management Studio
  • SQL Components
  • Data Definition Language
  • Queries
  • Modification of a Table's Contents
  • Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
  • System Catalog
  • Indices
  • Views
  • Security System of the Database Engine
  • Concurrency Control
  • Triggers
  • System Environment of the Database Engine
  • Backup, Recovery, and System Availability
  • Automating System Administration Tasks
  • Data Replication
  • Query Optimizer
  • Performance Tuning
  • In-Memory OLTP
  • Business Intelligence—An Introduction
  • SQL Server Analysis Services
  • Business Intelligence and Transact-SQL
  • SQL Server Reporting Services
  • Optimizing Techniques for Data Warehousing
  • Columnstore Indices
  • XML and JSON Integration in the Database Engine
  • Spatial and Temporal Data
  • SQL Server Full-Text Search
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