Knowing how to design T-SQL is part of the foundation for writing professional code. Once you can write T-SQL code that can be easily understood, you can start to focus on improving the performance of your T-SQL code. If you learned T-SQL informally as part of your job or your primary function is writing code for software applications, you may not consciously consider set-based design when writing your T-SQL code. You may be an experienced database developer and want to learn more about set-based design.
In this chapter, I want to discuss how to work with your data. The first step is to get familiar ...
