Microsoft SQL Server ebook for professionals

Download free Microsoft SQL Server tutorial course in PDF, training file in 112 chapters and 286 pages. Free unaffiliated ebook created from Stack OverFlow contributor.

Table of contents

• About
• Getting started with Microsoft SQL Server
• INSERT / SELECT / UPDATE / DELETE: the basics of Data Manipulation Language
• SELECT all rows and columns from a table
• UPDATE Speci?c Row
• DELETE All Rows
• Comments in code
• PRINT
• Select rows that match a condition
• UPDATE All Rows
• TRUNCATE TABLE
• Retrieve Basic Server Information
• Create new table and insert records from old table
• Using Transactions to change data safely
• Getting Table Row Count
• Data Types
• Exact Numerics
• Approximate Numerics
• Date and Time
• Character Strings
• Unicode Character Strings
• Binary Strings
• Other Data Types
• Converting data types
• TRY PARSE
• TRY CONVERT
• TRY CAST
• Cast
• Convert
• User De?ned Table Types
• creating a UDT with a single int column that is also a primary key
• Creating a UDT with multiple columns
• Creating a UDT with a unique constraint:
• Creating a UDT with a primary key and a column with a default value:
• SELECT statement
• Basic SELECT from table
• Filter rows using WHERE clause
• Sort results using ORDER BY
• Group result using GROUP BY
• Filter groups using HAVING clause
• Returning only ?rst N rows
• Pagination using OFFSET FETCH
• SELECT without FROM (no data souce)
• Alias Names in SQL Server
• Giving alias after Derived table name
• Using AS
• Using =
• Data Types
• User Defined Table Types
• Alias Names in SQL Server
• Variables
• Generating a range of dates
• COALESCE
• CASE Statement
• MERGE
• Views
• TRY/CATCH
• OVER Clause
• ORDER BY
• JSON in SQL Server
• FOR JSON
• Storing JSON in SQL tables
• FOR XML PATH
• cross apply
• Common Table Expressions
• Limit Result Set
• With Ties Option
• Logical Functions
• String Aggregate functions in SQL Server
• Window functions
• Dynamic SQL Pivot
• Stored Procedures
• Split String function in SQL Server
• Primary Keys
• Last Inserted Identity
• Sequences
• Full-Text Indexing
• Cursors
• Transaction isolation levels
• Advanced options
• Migration
• Table Valued Parameters
• DBMAIL
• In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton)
• Temporal Tables
• Use of TEMP Table
• Scheduled Task or Job
• Isolation levels and locking
• Sorting/ordering rows
• Privileges or Permissions
• SQLCMD
• Resource Governor
• File Group
• Basic DDL Operations in MS SQL Server
• Subqueries
• Pagination
• CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE
• Parsename
• Installing SQL Server on Windows
• Analyzing a Query
• Query Hints
• Query Store
• Querying results by page
• Schemas
• Backup and Restore Database
• Transaction handling
• Natively compiled modules (Hekaton)
• Spatial Data
• Dynamic SQL
• Dynamic data masking
• Export data in txt file by using SQLCMD
• Common Language Runtime Integration
• Delimiting special characters and reserved words
• DBCC
• BULK Import
• Service broker
• Permissions and Security
• Database permissions
• Row-level security
• Encryption
• PHANTOM read
• Filestream
• bcp (bulk copy program) Utility
• SQL Server Evolution through different versions (2000 - 2016)
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• Managing Azure SQL Database
• System database - TempDb
• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Shortcut Keys

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