Learn T-SQL from Scratch - 2nd Edition

Start your SQL Server and T-SQL journey with a clear, simple, and step-by-step guide that helps you build practical database skills from the ground up. You will learn DDL to create databases, schemas, tables, constraints, and indexes, and DML to retrieve and modify data. You will build advanced querying and analytical skills with joins, subqueries, CTEs, built-in functions, pivot, unpivot, rollup, and ranking and window functions.

You will use T-SQL features including temporary tables, cursors, WHILE loops, CASE expressions, IF...ELSE statements, transactions, error handling, concurrency controls, and isolation levels. You will create stored procedures, views, functions, and triggers; process XML and JSON; improve performance through indexing and tuning; troubleshoot issues; and deploy database solutions.

Updated for SQL Server 2022, this edition covers relevant features and practical topics without promising exhaustive coverage. It expands coverage of built-in functions, pivot, unpivot, rollup, cursors, concurrency concepts, isolation levels, performance tuning, and tips for writing efficient stored procedures.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
● Create database objects and retrieve and modify data.
● Perform advanced querying and analysis with joins, subqueries, CTEs, pivot, unpivot, rollup, and window functions.
● Use T-SQL features, transactions, error handling, concurrency controls, and isolation levels.
● Develop stored procedures, views, functions, and triggers.
● Process XML and JSON data.
● Optimize, troubleshoot, and deploy database solutions.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
SQL for All is the core idea behind this book. Whether you are a student, fresher, aspiring database developer, data analyst, data engineer, or data enthusiast, this book is designed to make T-SQL and data literacy accessible, practical, and easy to learn. No prior experience is required—just a willingness to learn and explore the world of data.

1. Getting Started
2. Tables
3. Indexes
4. DML
5. Built-In Functions - Part 1
6. Join, Apply, and Subquery
7. Built-In Functions – Part 2
8. Pivot and Unpivot
9. Dealing with XML and JSON
10. Variables and Control Flow Statements
11. Temporary Tables, CTE, and MERGE Statement
12. Cursors
13. Performance Tuning Essentials
14. Error Handling and Transaction Management
15. Data Conversion, Cross-Database, and Cross-Server Data Access
16. Programmability
17. Tips for Efficient Stored Procedures
18. Deployment

Brahmanand Shukla is a Senior Database Architect with 2 decades of experience in Software Design, Development, and Support. Brahmanand started his journey with SQL Server 2000 in 2007, and since then, SQL Server has been his second wife.

SQL Server is not the limit for Brahmanand. He has also designed and developed databases in PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Apache Cassandra. He has developed applications using VB 6.0, VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net, and Crystal Report. He has also delivered various cutting-edge ETL and Data Engineering solutions using SSIS and DataBricks.

Brahmanand believes that the database is no different from an ordinary storage space, such as a cupboard. He feels proud to be known as the SQL Server Carpenter. He started blogging on SQL Server way back in 2016 and launched his personal weblog https://sqlservercarpenter.com/. He is also a member of SQL Server Central.

He can be reached at Brahmanand.S.Shukla@GMail.com