Conventions Used in This Book
Names of commands and stored procedures are presented in a special monospaced computer typeface. We have tried to be consistent in our use of uppercase and lowercase for keywords and object names. However, because the default installation of SQL Server doesn’t make a distinction between upper- and lowercase for SQL keywords or object names and data, you might find some of the examples presented in either upper- or lowercase.
Code and output examples are presented separately from regular paragraphs and are also in a monospaced computer typeface. The following is an example:
select object_id, name, type_descfrom sys.objectswhere type = 'SQ'object_id name type_desc ...
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