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Beginning Microsoft ® SQL Server ® 2008 Programming www.wrox.com $39.99 USA $43.99 CAN Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved. Recommended Computer Book Categories Database Management General ISBN: 978-0-470-25701-2 Starting simply and gradually progressing to increasingly advanced topics, this introduction to the SQL Server database focuses on what is distinctive about the SQL environment—SQL Server 2008, in particular—versus other programming environments. Author Robert Vieira draws on his experience as one of the leading authorities on Microsoft SQL Server and uses his unique tutorial approach to explain the significant changes to the fundamental core components of SQL Server 2008. You’ll begin with an overview of database design concepts and learn how to implement these fundamental concepts with Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Then, you’ll take a look at the role of an RDBMS (relational database management system) and where it fits in the grand scheme of system development. Thorough coverage of the key additions and changes to the 2008 version of SQL Server include discussions on DATE and TIME datatypes, hierarchyID datatypes, MERGE and multiple inserts, recursive queries, and more. With this book, you will conquer the many changes and challenges of Microsoft SQL Server 2008. What you will learn from this book ● How RDBMSs store, manage, and retrieve data ● Ways to create and alter tables ● Various “forms” of database normalization ● Techniques for writing scripts and working with stored procedures ● The positives and negatives of indexes ● Myriad consequences that locks and deadlocks have on system performance ● An understanding of triggers and how they are used Who this book is for This book is for developers who are looking for a complete introduction to database design concepts and learning SQL. A basic understanding of development fundamentals is helpful. Enhance Your Knowledge Advance Your Career Microsoft ® SQL Server ® 2008 Programming Vieira Beginning subtitle spine=1.392" Updates, source code, and Wrox technical support at www.wrox.com Beginning Microsoft ® SQL Server ® 2008 Programming Robert Vieira Wrox Programmer to Programmer TM Wrox Programmer to Programmer TM www.it-ebooks.info Beginning Microsoft ® SQL Server ® 2008 Programming Enhance Your Knowledge Advance Your Career Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services 978-0-470-24795-2 This book shows developers how to master the 2008 release of SSIS, covering topics including data warehousing with SSIS, new methods of managing the SSIS platform, and improved techniques for ETL operations. Professional SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services 978-0-470-24201-8 This book teaches solutions architects, designers, and developers how to use Microsoft’s reporting platform to create reporting and business intelligence solutions. 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Let us know by e-mailing wrox-partnerwithus@wrox.com www.it-ebooks.info Beginning Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 Programming Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi Chapter 1: RDBMS Basics: What Makes Up a SQL Server Database? . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2: Tools of the Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Chapter 3: The Foundation Statements of T-SQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Chapter 4: JOINs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Chapter 5: Creating and Altering Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Chapter 6: Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Chapter 7: Adding More to Our Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Chapter 8: Being Normal: Normalization and Other Basic Design Issues. . . . 215 Chapter 9: SQL Server Storage and Index Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Chapter 10: Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Chapter 11: Writing Scripts and Batches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Chapter 12: Stored Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Chapter 13: User-Defined Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 Chapter 14: Transactions and Locks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 Chapter 15: Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 Chapter 16: A Brief XML Primer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Chapter 17: Reporting for Duty, Sir! A Look At Reporting Services . . . . . . . 517 Chapter 18: Getting Integrated with Integration Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543 Chapter 19: Playing Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 Appendix A: System Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 Appendix B: Very Simple Connectivity Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657 57012ffirs.qxd:WroxBeg 11/24/08 4:52 PM Page i www.it-ebooks.info 57012ffirs.qxd:WroxBeg 11/24/08 4:52 PM Page ii www.it-ebooks.info Beginning Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 Programming 57012ffirs.qxd:WroxBeg 11/24/08 4:52 PM Page iii www.it-ebooks.info 57012ffirs.qxd:WroxBeg 11/24/08 4:52 PM Page iv www.it-ebooks.info Beginning Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 Programming Robert Vieira 57012ffirs.qxd:WroxBeg 11/24/08 4:52 PM Page v www.it-ebooks.info Beginning Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 Programming Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-470-25701-2 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Vieira, Robert. 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I don’t see any reason to change that now. Things in life have changed a great deal for me over the years, and the oldest daughter didn’t have to sacrifice as much time with me this time around (college life means she doesn’t want to see that much of me anyway — I hate kids growing up!). The younger one regularly asks me when I’m going to be done, so I guess she’s noticed time lost, and, frankly, so have I. And so it is, once again, that I dedicate this book to my two daughters, and promise that at least some portion of the proceeds of this book will help pay for a nice trip to Disney World so we can make up a little time! 57012ffirs.qxd:WroxBeg 11/24/08 4:52 PM Page vii www.it-ebooks.info 57012ffirs.qxd:WroxBeg 11/24/08 4:52 PM Page viii www.it-ebooks.info [...]... 27 SQL Server Management Studio 28 Getting Started with the Management Studio Server Type Server Name Authentication 29 29 29 31 Query Window 33 Getting Started Results to Text Results to Grid Results to File sqlcmd Mode Show Execution Plan The Available Databases Combo Box The Object Explorer 33 35 36 36 36 37 38 38 SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Bulk Copy Program (bcp) SQL Server Profiler sqlcmd... unrealized need for a new kind of SQL book — one aimed specifically at developers At the time, I wrote Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming to be everything to everyone It was a compendium It started at the beginning and progressed to a logical end The result was a very, very large book that filled a void for a lot of people (hooray!) With SQL Server 2005, SQL Server was in its second revision since... use of this book, you will need an installation of SQL Server The book makes extensive use of the actual SQL Server 2008 management tools, so I highly recommend that you have a version that contains the full product, rather than just using SQL Server Express That said, the book is focused on the kind of scripting required for developers, so even SQL Server Express users should be able to get the lion’s... overlap SQL Server 2008 adds yet another stack of new features, provides me the opportunity to take the Professional title even more toward the advanced reader, and allows me to round out the Beginning title more cleanly My hope is that, in this book, you find something that covers all of the core elements of SQL Server with the same success that we had in the original Professional SQL Server Programming. .. AM Page xv Contents Introduction xxxi Chapter 1: RDBMS Basics: What Makes Up a SQL Server Database? An Overview of Database Objects The Database Object 1 1 2 The master Database The model Database The msdb Database The tempdb Database ReportServer ReportServerTempDB AdventureWorks2008 AdventureWorksLT2008 AdventureWorksDW2008 The pubs Database The Northwind Database 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 The Transaction... Constraints Summary Exercises 260 260 260 260 260 260 260 260 260 260 Chapter 9: SQL Server Storage and Index Structures SQL Server Storage 261 261 The Database The Extent The Page 261 262 262 Page Splits 263 Rows Sparse Columns 263 263 Understanding Indexes 264 B-Trees 265 Page Splits — A First Look 267 How Data Is Accessed in SQL Server Use of Table Scans Use of Indexes Index Types and Index Navigation... Reporting Services, Integration Services, and more!) What This Book Covers Well, if you’ve read the title, you’re probably not shocked to hear that this book covers SQL Server 2008 with a definite bent toward the developer’s perspective SQL Server 2008 is the latest incarnation of a database management system that has now been around for about two decades It builds on the base redesign that was done to the... Defaults User-Defined Data Types Full-Text Catalogs 8 8 9 10 10 11 11 11 11 12 SQL Server Data Types 12 NULL Data 18 SQL Server Identifiers for Objects What Gets Named? Rules for Naming 18 18 19 Summary 19 www.it-ebooks.info 57012ftoc.qxd:WroxBeg 11/22/08 10:18 AM Page xvi Contents Chapter 2:Tools of the Trade 21 Books Online SQL Server Configuration Manager 21 23 Service Management Network Configuration... of SQL Server 2005 created a situation where there was simply too much content to squeeze into one book (we literally exceeded the bindery limits for a book), and so we made the choice to split the old Professional series title into a Beginning and a more targeted Professional pair of titles A lot of work was put into the split, but, in the end, there was still a significant degree of overlap SQL Server. .. It Works 333 Using @@ROWCOUNT 334 Batches 335 A Line to Itself Each Batch Is Sent to the Server Separately GO Is Not a T -SQL Command Errors in Batches When to Use Batches 335 336 336 337 337 Statements That Require Their Own Batch Using Batches to Establish Precedence sqlcmd 337 338 340 How It Works 344 Dynamic SQL: Generating Your Code On the Fly with the EXEC Command The Gotchas of EXEC 344 346 The . T -SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 978-0-470-25703-6 Beginning T -SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 provides a comprehensive introduction to the T -SQL programming language,. iv www.it-ebooks.info Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming Robert Vieira 57012ffirs.qxd:WroxBeg 11/24/08 4:52 PM Page v www.it-ebooks.info Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming Published. www.wrox.com Beginning Microsoft ® SQL Server ® 2008 Programming Robert Vieira Wrox Programmer to Programmer TM Wrox Programmer to Programmer TM www.it-ebooks.info Beginning Microsoft ® SQL Server ®