Foundations of T-SQL
Miguel Cebollero, Jay Natarajan, MICHAEL G. H. COLES · Apress eBooks · 2015
SQL Server 2014 is the latest release of Microsoft’s enterprise-class database management system (DBMS). As the name implies, a DBMS is a tool designed to manage, secure, and provide access to data stored in structured collections in databases. Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is the language that SQL Server speaks. T-SQL provides query and data-manipulation functionality, data definition and management capabilities, and security administration tools to SQL Server developers and administrators. To communicate effectively with SQL Server, you must have a solid understanding of the language. In this chapter, you begin exploring T-SQL on SQL Server 2014. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.