Download or read book BEGINNING T-SQL WITH MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005 AND 2008 written by Paul Turley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market_Desc: · Beginning SQL Server developers and admins, plus business/data analysts and power users Special Features: · The fundamental query language used by all Microsoft SQL Server database programmers, as well as business analysts and database users· T-SQL changes slowly, so this title should sell well for 3 years or even more· Microsoft database programming is one of the two most successful Wrox categories· The lead author, Paul Turley, is a well-known database expert and Wrox author About The Book: The book teaches beginners who have not yet programmed with Transact-SQL--more commonly referred to as T-SQL. Some familiarity with relational databases and basic SQL is expected, and some programming experience is helpful. The target audience includes database developers as well as business and data analysts, and power users.The book begins with an overview of SQL Server query operations and tools used with T-SQL. After a quick review of basic query language commands and syntax, the author quickly moves to show how to design and build applications of increasing complexity.