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Squeeze maximum performance and efciency from every T-SQL query you write or tune. Four leading experts take an indepth look at T-SQL’s internal architecture and offer advanced practical techniques for optimizing response time and resource usage. Emphasizing a correct understanding of the language and its foundations, the authors present unique solutions they have spent years developing and rening. All code and techniques are fully updated to reect new T-SQL enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2012 and help you write faster, more efcient T-SQL code. • Move from procedural programming to the language of sets and logic • Master an efcient topdown tuning methodology • Assess algorithmic complexity to predict performance • Compare data aggregation techniques, including new grouping sets • Efciently perform data analysis calculations • Make the most of T-SQL’s optimized bulk import tools • Avoid date/time pitfalls that lead to buggy,