Exam Ref 70-761 Querying Data with Transact-SQL, 1st edition
Title overview
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-761—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of SQL Server 2016 Transact-SQL data management, queries, and database programming. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.
Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
• Filter, sort, join, aggregate, and modify data
• Use subqueries, table expressions, grouping sets, and pivoting
• Query temporal and non-relational data, and output XML or JSON
• Create views, user-defined functions, and stored procedures
• Implement error handling, transactions, data types, and nulls
This Microsoft Exam Ref:
• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
• Assumes you have experience working with SQL Server as a database administrator, system engineer, or developer
• Includes downloadable sample database and code for SQL Server 2016 SP1 (or later) and Azure SQL Database
Table of contents
CHAPTER 1 Manage data with Transact-SQL
CHAPTER 2 Query data with advanced Transact-SQL components
CHAPTER 3 Program databases by using Transact-SQL
Author bios
Itzik Ben-Gan, mentor and cofounder of SolidQ, authored its Advanced T-SQL and T-SQL Fundamentals courses. A Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 1999, he has delivered T-SQL querying, tuning, and programming training worldwide. His books include T-SQL Querying and T-SQL Fundamentals.