Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example

Ideal for the database programmer or system DBA, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example is an excellent example-based tutorial on mastering today's SQL features. Packed with plenty of tips and tricks, this title will let most anyone do more with SQL Server.

While there are plenty of screen shots showing graphical SQL Server tools, the focus of this book is clearly on learning real command-line Transact-SQL (T-SQL). The authors provide a patient and very thorough tour of T-SQL with full coverage of both basic and advanced features. You'll learn how to define new tables, manage users in groups, and perform all kinds of queries. Standout material includes an excellent guide to SQL data types and how to choose the right one for your needs. When it comes to queries, the book does a great job of exploring all your options for joining relational data, as well as grouping data for more advanced reporting. True to its title, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example is filled with dozens of examples of SQL commands (and the results returned) so that you can try out this material for yourself and really learn the language thoroughly.

Later on, the authors turn toward server-side programming with a digestible guide to creating stored procedures and triggers. The book closes with an in-depth guide to the issues regarding cursors (for working with table data), transactions, and locking. Sections on bulk copy tools and the Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) show how to move data around the enterprise. A final section of distributed queries and linked servers will help you work with different sources of data wherever it resides in your organization.

Despite some stilted writing, the comprehensive examples in this book make it a success. It will let anyone start using basic T-SQL for the first time, as well as teach more advanced readers to master the finer points of Microsoft databases. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

• History and introduction to Microsoft SQL Server
• In-depth Transact-SQL (T-SQL) tutorial (including T-SQL data types and flow control statements)
• Creating and modifying tables and views
• Creating queries with the SELECT statement
• Inserting, deleting, and updating data
• Using joins (inner, outer, and cross joins)
• Indexes (database optimization and index maintenance)
• Data integrity (constraints and foreign keys)
• Business logic with stored procedures (including error handling and security)
• Tutorial and tips for triggers (including nested and recursive triggers)
• User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
• Complex queries and subqueries
• Row-oriented processing with cursors (including SQL Server cursor types)
• Transactions in T-SQL (including basic ACID properties, isolation levels, and locks)
• Avoiding deadlocks
• Transferring data to and from SQL Server with bulk copy and Data Transformation Services (DTS)
• Databases in heterogeneous environments (distributed queries and linked servers)
• Using the SQL Query Analyzer

We decided to write this book to help developers to start learning how to program databases in SQL Server 2000.

It is a book for beginners, and for developers with some experience, searching for some good advice on how to use Transact-SQL language to program databases. It contains more than 400 listings to help you practice every single feature.

The book was born with SQL Server 2000, uses SQL Server 2000, and teaches SQL Server 2000. It is not a transition book, nor a new-features book, it is simply a SQL Server 2000 Programming book.

It covers only programming topics, but it includes a comprehensive section on security, because we believe it is crucial for database developers.

Perhaps you'd prefer to start reading the book from the end, where you can find an entire Appendix on how the new Query Analyzer 2000 works.

If you have already some experience in database development, you will benefit from a comprehensive chapter on Indexes, a chapter on user-defined functions (the longest chapter in the book), and a complete chapter on concurrency, with lots of examples.

You can visit the book website where you can read online an extra chapter on XML support in SQL Server 2000, only available in Internet, and you can download the examples source code for the entire book.

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