July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
27h 38m
English
As SQL Server evolves, Microsoft continues to improve and enhance Transact SQL (T-SQL)—the native procedural programming language that developers have been using since the birth of the product. Today, T-SQL maintains its role as the primary language for programming the relational database engine, even as numerous other capabilities and programmability points are added to the SQL Server stack with each new release.
It is true that SQL Server Common Language Runtime integration (SQL CLR) allows you to use C# or Visual Basic (VB) .NET as an alternative to T-SQL for writing stored procedures, triggers, and other database objects. This important capability was added in SQL Server 2005, and Chapter 3 covers ...
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