Get ready for model-driven application development with SQL Server Modeling! This book covers Microsoft’s SQL Server Modeling (formerly known under the code name “Oslo”) in detail and contains the information you need to be successful with designing and implementing workflow modeling.

Beginning SQL Server Modeling will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of how to apply DSLs and other modeling components in the development of SQL Server implementations. Most importantly, after reading the book and working through the examples, you will have considerable experience using SQL Modeling components, because the book and accompanying source code take you through the steps of actually building solutions using the platform.

Beginning SQL Server Modeling is the only book that comprehensively covers .NET application development using SQL Modeling. This book explains the critical concepts of SQL Server Modeling and model-driven development that every SQL Server developer should know. The book is simple and concise, giving readers an immediate return on their investment. After learning the lessons of this book, business process analysts and developers will be prepared to use SQL modeling for model-based design, development, and implementations.

Книга Алана Бьюли, эксперта по языку SQL, - прекрасный учебник для тех, кто еще не знает, но хочет освоить этот язык ..Книга не только позволит приобрести начальные знания, но и расскажет о наиболее часто употребляемых мощных средствах языка SQL, используемых опытными программистами.
Многие книги, посвященные SQL, грешат скучным изложением основ. Здесь же автор в стиле живого рассказа обсуждает SQL-выражения и блоки, различные типы условий, показывает, как посредством соединения таблиц создавать запросы к нескольким таблицам, рассматривает наборы данных и как они могут взаимодействовать в запросах, демонстрирует встроенные и агрегатные функции, показывает, как и где используются подзапросы. Подробно описаны различные типы соединений таблиц, применение условной логики, работа с транзакциями, индексы и ограничения.
Поскольку лучший способ изучения SQL - это практика, автор создает учебную базу данных MySQL и приводит множество вариантов реальных запросов, охватывающих весь теоретический материал. При таком подходе не научиться просто невозможно. Примеры кода можно использовать в своих программах и документации.
Книга предназначена разработчикам приложений БД, администраторам БД и тем, кто создает отчеты.

Each chapter in this book helps you identify, explain, and correct a unique and dangerous antipattern. The four parts of the book group the anti​patterns in terms of logical database design, physical database design, queries, and application development. The chances are good that your application's database layer already contains problems such as Index Shotgun, Keyless Entry, Fear of the Unknown, and Spaghetti Query. This book will help you and your team find them. Even better, it will also show you how to fix them, and how to avoid these and other problems in the future. SQL Antipatterns gives you a rare glimpse into an SQL expert's playbook. Now you can stamp out these commondatabase errors once and for all. Whatever platform or programming language you use, whether you're a junior programmer or a Ph.D., SQL Antipatterns will show you how to design and build databases, how to write betterdatabase queries, and how to integrate SQL programming with your application like an expert. You'll also learn the best and most current technology for full-text search, how to design code that is resistant to SQL injection attacks, and other techniques for success.

Когда поднимается вопрос рефакторинга кода, специалист может быть уверен, что либо возникла серьезная проблема, либо предполагается, что она проявится в ближайшее время. Как правило, при этом известно, что следует улучшить в плане функциональности, но прежде необходимо понять природу проблемы.
В книге делается попытка дать реалистичный и честный обзор методов усовершенствования приложений SQL и определить рациональную концепцию для тактических маневров. Часто рефакторинг напоминает безумный поиск быстрых побед и эффектных усовершенствований, которые можно вписать в бюджет и сохранить голову на плечах. Но разумное и систематическое применение правильных принципов может привести к впечатляющим результатам. Эта книга поможет выработать правильную тактику и оценить перспективы различных решений.

A lucid guide to SQL which provides the tools to put practical instruction to work immediately!
SQL Clearly Explained is one of those rare books that delivers 100 percent what its title promises. If you need to use SQL on the job, and who doesn't, then this book should be on your desk.
This book functions as a very good tutorial, taking you from the basics through expert topics in a very straightforward manner.

Businesses today want actionable insights into their data—they want their data to reveal itself to them in a natural and user–friendly form. What could be more natural than human language? Natural–language search is at the center of a storm of ever–increasing web–driven demand for human–computer communication and information access. SQL Server 2008 provides the tools to take advantage of the features of its built–in enterprise–level natural–language search engine in the form of Integrated Full–Text Search (iFTS). Integrated Full–Text Search uses text–aware relational queries to provide your users with fast access to content. Whether you want to set up an enterprise–wide Internet or intranet search engine or create less ambitious natural–language search applications, this book will teach you how to get the most out of SQL Server 2008 Integrated Full–Text Search:
Introducing powerful Integrated Full–Text Search features in SQL Server such as the FREETEXT and CONTAINS predicates, custom thesauruses, and stop lists
Showing you how to optimize full–text query performance through features like full–text indexes and iFilters
Providing examples that help you understand and apply the power of Integrated Full–Text Search in your daily projects

Are you an SQL programmer that, like many, came to SQL after learning and writing procedural or object-oriented code? Or have switched jobs to where a different brand of SQL is being used, or maybe even been told to learn SQL yourself?
If even one answer is yes, then you need this book. A "Manual of Style" for the SQL programmer, this book is a collection of heuristics and rules, tips, and tricks that will help you improve SQL programming style and proficiency, and for formatting and writing portable, readable, maintainable SQL code. Based on many years of experience consulting in SQL shops, and gathering questions and resolving his students’ SQL style issues, Joe Celko can help you become an even better SQL programmer.

This book is designed to teach application developers all of the skills they need to use SQL to work with a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. But it's also a great first book for developers who are on the path to becoming a DBA.

Unlike most SQL Server 2008 books, this one starts by showing you how to use SQL queries to extract and update the data in a database, because that's what every application developer needs to know first. Then, it shows how to design and implement a database, how to use powerful backend database features like views, stored procedures, functions, triggers, cursors, transactions, locking, security, and how to work with BLOB and XML data. Finally, it shows how to use the CLR integration feature to create database objects using a .NET language such as C# or Visual Basic.

MySQL is the most popular open-source database and is also known for its easy set up feature. However, proper configuration beyond the default settings still is a challenge, along with some other day-to-day maintenance tasks such as backing up and restoring, performance tuning, and server monitoring. These tasks have not been covered thoroughly in the default documentation.

This book provides both step-by-step recipes and relevant background information on these topics and more. It covers everything from basic to advanced aspects of MySQL administration and configuration. One of the things you are really going to love about this book is that all recipes are based on real-world experience and were derived from proven solutions used in an enterprise environment.

Beginning SQL Queries is your guide to mastering the lingua franca of the database industry: the SQL language. Good knowledge of SQL is crucial to anyone working with databases, because it is with SQL that you retrieve data, manipulate data, and generate business results. Knowing how to write good queries is the foundation for all work done in SQL, and it is a foundation that Clare lays well in her book.
* Does not bore with syntax!
* Helps you learn the underlying concepts involved in querying a database, and from there the syntax is easy
* Provides exceptionally clear examples and explanations