Murachs SQL Server 2012 for Developers (Training & Reference)

If you're an application developer, or want to be one someday, this is the SQL Server 2012 book you need. To start, it presents the SQL statements that you need to retrieve and update the data in a database. These are the SQL statements that you'll use every day. Then, it shows you how to design a database, how to implement that design, and how to work with professional database features like views, scripts, stored procedures, functions, triggers, transactions, security, XML data, and BLOB data with FILESTREAM storage. Finally, this book shows you how to take advantage of SQL Server's CLR integration features.