Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Bible

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Introduction

■ (^) Database administrator
■ Business Intelligence (BI) developer
■ (^) PTO performance tuning and optimization expert
This book has been carefully planned to address each of these roles.
Whether you are a database developer or a database administrator, whether you are just
starting out or have one year of experience or fi ve, this book contains material that will be
useful to you.
Although the book is targeted at intermediate-level database professionals, each chapter
begins with the assumption that you’ve never seen the topic before and then progresses
through the subject, presenting the information that makes a difference.
At the higher end of the spectrum, the book pushes the intermediate professional into cer-
tain advanced areas in which it makes the most sense. For example, you can fi nd advanced
material on T-SQL queries, index strategies, and data architecture.

How This Book Is Organized

SQL Server is a huge product with dozens of technologies and interrelated features. Just

organizing a book of this scope is a daunting task.

A book of this size and scope must also be approachable as both a cover-to-cover read and

a reference book. The nine parts of this book are organized by job role, project fl ow, and

skills progression:

Part I: Laying the Foundations

Part II: Building Databases and Working with Data

Part III: Advanced T-SQL Data Types and Querying Techniques

Part IV: Programming with T-SQL

Part V: Enterprise Data Management

Part VI: Securing Your SQL Server

Part VII: Monitoring and Auditing

Part VIII: Performance Tuning and Optimization

Part IX: Business Intelligence

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