Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building applications with Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012
Teach yourself the programming fundamentals of SQL Server 2012—one step at a time. Ideal for beginning SQL Server database administrators and developers, this tutorial provides clear guidance and practical, learn-by-doing exercises for building database solutions that solve real-world business problems.
Discover how to:
Install and work with core components and tools Create tables and index structures Manipulate and retrieve data Secure, manage, back up, and recover databases Apply techniques for building high-performing applications Use clustering, database mirroring, and log shipping
Read to help me at work. Being self-taught this was a very nice to have an introduction book like this. I have used SQL Server 2012 to create a database including Database Diagrams, Tables, and all the parts of the table. But I never received knowledge on every aspect of it. This book laid out the information very well and had good examples. Also included benefits of one versus the other when there were more than on way of doing a task. Very good beginner - intermediate book.