Every year, Eric Ligman from Microsoft posts links to free Microsoft e-books that you can download. This year he has posted links to more books than ever before, on a variety of topics such as Azure, Dynamics CRM,.NET, Xamarin, Windows, Office, Power BI, PowerShell, SharePoint, SQL Server, and more. I have found a number of them to be quite good and informative. The links to the e-books appear below.The e-books are totally free, and are not time limited in any way. Feel free to share the links to the books, but please do not distribute the actual e-book files themselves. By downloading the e-books using the links below, you will be supporting the authors and publishers and getting the latest versions.Many of the e-books are available in multiple formats, allowing you to choose the format that you want. Since there are so many books, and you can download as many of them as you want, some of you may be interested in downloading all of them at once.
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SQL Server 2017/ October 2, 2017; 20 months ago ( 2017-10-02)Written in,Available inEnglish, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and IndonesianWebsiteMicrosoft SQL Server is a developed. As a, it is a with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other —which may run either on the same computer or on another computer across a network (including the Internet).Microsoft markets at least a dozen different editions of Microsoft SQL Server, aimed at different audiences and for workloads ranging from small single-machine applications to large Internet-facing applications with many. Main article:T-SQL (Transact-SQL) is Microsoft's proprietary extension for SQL Server. It provides (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) instructions that extend standard SQL's instruction set for Data Manipulation and Data Definition instructions, including SQL Server-specific settings, security and database statistics management.It exposes keywords for the operations that can be performed on SQL Server, including creating and altering database schemas, entering and editing data in the database as well as monitoring and managing the server itself.
Client applications that consume data or manage the server will leverage SQL Server functionality by sending T-SQL queries and statements which are then processed by the server and results (or errors) returned to the client application. For this it exposes read-only tables from which server statistics can be read. Management functionality is exposed via system-defined stored procedures which can be invoked from T-SQL queries to perform the management operation. It is also possible to create linked Servers using T-SQL. Linked servers allow a single query to process operations performed on multiple servers. SQL Server Native Client (a.k.a.
SNAC) SQL Server Native Client is the native client side data access for Microsoft SQL Server, version 2005 onwards. It natively implements support for the SQL Server features including the implementation, support for mirrored SQL Server databases, full support for all data types supported by SQL Server, asynchronous operations, query notifications, support, as well as receiving multiple result sets in a single database session. SQL Server Native Client is used under the hood by SQL Server plug-ins for other data access technologies, including. The SQL Server Native Client can also be directly used, bypassing the generic data access layers.On November 28, 2011, a preview release of the SQL Server driver for was released. Main article:Microsoft SQL Server 2005 includes a component named ('Common Language Runtime') via which it integrates with.
Unlike most other applications that use.NET Framework, SQL Server itself hosts the.NET Framework, i.e., memory, threading and resource management requirements of.NET Framework are satisfied by SQLOS itself, rather than the underlying Windows operating system. SQLOS provides deadlock detection and resolution services for.NET code as well. With SQL CLR, and can be written in any, including.
Can also be used to define UDT's , which can persist in the database. Is compiled to and after being verified for, registered at the database. After that, they can be invoked like any other procedure. However, only a subset of the is available, when running code under SQL CLR.
Most APIs relating to functionality are not available.When writing code for SQL CLR, data stored in SQL Server databases can be accessed using the like any other that accesses SQL Server data. However, doing that creates a new database session, different from the one in which the code is executing. To avoid this, SQL Server provides some enhancements to the provider that allows the connection to be redirected to the same session which already hosts the running code. Such connections are called context connections and are set by setting context connection parameter to true in the connection string. SQL Server also provides several other enhancements to the API, including classes to work with tabular data or a single row of data as well as classes to work with internal metadata about the data stored in the database. It also provides access to the XML features in SQL Server, including support. These enhancements are also available in T-SQL Procedures in consequence of the introduction of the new XML Datatype (query, value, nodes functions).
Services SQL Server also includes an assortment of add-on services. While these are not essential for the operation of the database system, they provide value added services on top of the core database management system. These services either run as a part of some SQL Server component or out-of-process as and presents their own to control and interact with them.Machine Learning Services The SQL Server Machine Learning services operates within the SQL server instance, allowing people to do machine learning and data analytics without having to send data across the network or be limited by the memory of their own computers. The services come with Microsoft's R and Python distributions that contain commonly used packages for data science, along with some proprietary packages (e.g., microsoftml) that can be used to create machine models at scale.Analysts can either configure their client machine to connect to a remote SQL server and push the script executions to it, or they can run a R or Python scripts as an external script inside a T-SQL query. The trained machine learning model can be stored inside a database and used for scoring.
Service Broker Used inside an instance, programming environment. For cross-instance applications, Service Broker communicates over and allows the different components to be synchronized, via exchange of messages. The Service Broker, which runs as a part of the database engine, provides a reliable messaging and platform for SQL Server applications.
Replication Services SQL Server Replication Services are used by SQL Server to replicate and synchronize database objects, either in entirety or a subset of the objects present, across replication agents, which might be other database servers across the network, or database caches on the client side. Lulla follows a publisher/subscriber model, i.e., the changes are sent out by one database server ('publisher') and are received by others ('subscribers'). SQL Server supports three different types of replication: Transaction replication Each transaction made to the publisher database (master database) is synced out to subscribers, who update their databases with the transaction.
Transactional replication synchronizes databases in near real time. Merge replication Changes made at both the publisher and subscriber databases are tracked, and periodically the changes are synchronized bi-directionally between the publisher and the subscribers. If the same data has been modified differently in both the publisher and the subscriber databases, synchronization will result in a conflict which has to be resolved, either manually or by using pre-defined policies. Needs to be configured on a column if merge replication is configured.
Snapshot replication Snapshot replication publishes a copy of the entire database (the then-snapshot of the data) and replicates out to the subscribers. Further changes to the snapshot are not tracked. Analysis Services. Main article:SQL Server Analysis Services adds and capabilities for SQL Server databases. The OLAP engine supports, and storage modes for data.
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Analysis Services supports the standard as the underlying communication protocol. The cube data can be accessed using and LINQ queries.Data mining specific functionality is exposed via the query language. Analysis Services includes various algorithms—, clustering algorithm, algorithm, time series analysis, sequence clustering algorithm, linear and logistic analysis, and —for use in data mining. Reporting Services.
Main article:SQL Server Reporting Services is a report generation environment for data gathered from SQL Server databases. It is administered via a. Reporting services features a interface to support the development of custom reporting applications. Reports are created as files.Reports can be designed using recent versions of (Visual Studio.NET 2003, 2005, and 2008) with, installed or with the included. Once created, RDL files can be rendered in a variety of formats, including Excel, and, and HTML Web Archive.Notification Services.
Main article:Originally introduced as a post-release add-on for SQL Server 2000, Notification Services was bundled as part of the Microsoft SQL Server platform for the first and only time with SQL Server 2005. SQL Server Notification Services is a mechanism for generating data-driven notifications, which are sent to Notification Services subscribers. A subscriber registers for a specific event or transaction (which is registered on the database server as a trigger); when the event occurs, Notification Services can use one of three methods to send a message to the subscriber informing about the occurrence of the event. These methods include SMTP, SOAP, or by writing to a file in the filesystem. Notification Services was discontinued by Microsoft with the release of SQL Server 2008 in August 2008, and is no longer an officially supported component of the SQL Server database platform.Integration Services. The SQL Server Full Text Search service architectureSQL Server Full Text Search service is a specialized indexing and querying service for unstructured text stored in SQL Server databases. The full text search index can be created on any column with character based text data.
It allows for words to be searched for in the text columns. While it can be performed with the SQL LIKE operator, using SQL Server Full Text Search service can be more efficient. Full allows for inexact matching of the source string, indicated by a Rank value which can range from 0 to 1000—a higher rank means a more accurate match. It also allows linguistic matching ('inflectional search'), i.e., linguistic variants of a word (such as a verb in a different tense) will also be a match for a given word (but with a lower rank than an exact match).
Proximity searches are also supported, i.e., if the words searched for do not occur in the sequence they are specified in the query but are near each other, they are also considered a match. T-SQL exposes special operators that can be used to access the FTS capabilities.The Full Text Search engine is divided into two processes: the Filter Daemon process ( msftefd.exe) and the Search process ( msftesql.exe). These processes interact with the SQL Server. The Search process includes the indexer (that creates the full text indexes) and the full text query processor. The indexer scans through text columns in the database. It can also index through binary columns, and use to extract meaningful text from the binary blob (for example, when a document is stored as an unstructured binary file in a database). The iFilters are hosted by the Filter Daemon process.
Once the text is extracted, the Filter Daemon process breaks it up into a sequence of words and hands it over to the indexer. The indexer filters out noise words, i.e., words like A, And etc., which occur frequently and are not useful for search. With the remaining words, an is created, associating each word with the columns they were found in.
SQL Server itself includes a Gatherer component that monitors changes to tables and invokes the indexer in case of updates.When a full text query is received by the SQL Server query processor, it is handed over to the FTS query processor in the Search process. The FTS query processor breaks up the query into the constituent words, filters out the noise words, and uses an inbuilt to find out the linguistic variants for each word. The words are then queried against the inverted index and a rank of their accurateness is computed. The results are returned to the client via the SQL Server process.
SQLCMD SQLCMD is a command line application that comes with Microsoft SQL Server, and exposes the management features of SQL Server. It allows SQL queries to be written and executed from the command prompt.
It can also act as a to create and run a set of SQL statements as a script. Such scripts are stored as a.sql file, and are used either for management of databases or to create the database schema during the deployment of a database.SQLCMD was introduced with SQL Server 2005 and this continues with SQL Server 2012, 2014 and 2016.
Its predecessor for earlier versions was OSQL and ISQL, which is functionally equivalent as it pertains to TSQL execution, and many of the command line parameters are identical, although SQLCMD adds extra versatility.Visual Studio. Main article:is a tool included with SQL Server 2005 and later for configuring, managing, and administering all components within Microsoft SQL Server. The tool includes both script editors and graphical tools that work with objects and features of the server. SQL Server Management Studio replaces as the primary management interface for Microsoft SQL Server since SQL Server 2005. A version of SQL Server Management Studio is also available for SQL Server Express Edition, for which it is known as SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE).A central feature of SQL Server Management Studio is the Object Explorer, which allows the user to browse, select, and act upon any of the objects within the server. It can be used to visually observe and analyze query plans and optimize the database performance, among others. SQL Server Management Studio can also be used to create a new database, alter any existing database schema by adding or modifying tables and indexes, or analyze performance.
It includes the query windows which provide a GUI based interface to write and execute queries. SQL Server Operations Studio SQL Server Operations Studio (Preview) is a cross platform query editor available as an optional download. The tool allows users to write queries; export query results; commit SQL scripts to repositories and perform basic server diagnostics.
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.You can create a relationship between tables by using the GUI or SQL script. Here, I demonstrate both methods.In relational database design, a relationship is where two or more tables are linked together because they contain related data.
This enables usersテつxA0to run queries for related data across multiple tables.Here, we will create the following relationships. The MethodHere's how we'll do it:. We'll use SQL to create the Albums table and one relationship.
We'll use the GUI to create the other relationship.That way, you'll get to see both methods of creating a relationship. CONSTRAINT FKAlbumsArtists FOREIGN KEY (ArtistId)REFERENCES dbo.Artists (ArtistId)ON DELETE NO ACTIONON UPDATE NO ACTIONThe first two lines create the relationship.
They create a foreign key constraint between the Albums.ArtistId column and the Artists.ArtistId column.The last two lines specify what SQL Server should do if someone tries to delete or update a parent record that is being referenced by a record in the child table. In this case, NO ACTION means that the delete/update won't go ahead.
The user will just get an error.You could change this to ON DELETE CASCADE if you want to be able to delete the parent and the child in one go (i.e. The delete will cascade from the parent to the child). The same logic applies to updates, by using ON UPDATE CASADE.NO ACTION is the default value, so we could've done without those last two lines of code. However, I included it, because it's an important factor to think about when creating foreign key constraints. What's a Foreign Key Constraint?A foreign key constraint defines a relationship between this table and another table.
When you create a foreign key constraint, you create it against a specific column in the child table, to reference a specific column in parent table.This makes the column in the child table a foreign key. The constraint ensures that any value that goes into this (foreign key) column corresponds with a value in the primary key column of the parent table. If someone tries to enter a value that doesn't correspond with a value in the parent table's primary key column, SQL Server will throw an error.This helps enforce referential integrity.
It prevents us from having orphaned records (child records that have no parent). Or in our example, albums that aren't associated with any artist. Create a Relationship via the GUINow we'll create the other relationship via the SQL Server Mangement Studio's GUI.It would've been easier to include this in the above script but I wanted to demonstrate both methods of creating a relationship. Open the Child Table in the Table DesignerRight-click on the child table (our newly created Albums table) and select Design from the contextual menu. If you can't see your newly created table in the Object Browser, you probably need to refresh the Object Browser.Right-click on the Tables node and select Refresh. Open the Foreign Key Relationships DialogSelect Table Designer Relationships.
From the top menu. Add the RelationshipThe Foreign Key Relationships dialog will show you any existing relationships for the table. We can see the relationship that we established just before, when we created the table.Click Add to add another relationship. Select Tables And Columns SpecificationA new relationship appears above the other one in the Selected Relationship list with a name of FKAlbumsAlbums.Ensuring that the the new relationship is selected, click Tables And Columns Specification in the right pane. An ellipses appears to the right of the property.Click the ellipses (.) to launch the Tables and Columns dialog box. The Tables and Columns Dialog BoxHere, you select the primary key table on the left pane, and the foreign key table on the right.
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Under Primary key table: select Genres as the table and GenreId as the column. Under Foreign key table: select Albums as the table and GenreId as the column.Click OK. SQL Server will suggest a name for the relationship. You can edit this if you wish. Otherwise, leave it as it is. The RelationshipYour relationship will now be displayed correctly in the Foreign Key Relationships dialog box.Click Close. Saving The RelationshipYour relationship won't be saved until you save the table.
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When you save the table, you will probably get a warning that two tables will be saved. This is to be expected, as the relationship affects two tables.Click Yes to save both tables.
Try SQL Server!.Get SQL Tools.SQL Server TechnologiesThe Database Engine is the core service for storing, processing, and securing data. The Database Engine provides controlled access and rapid transaction processing to meet the requirements of the most demanding data consuming applications within your enterprise.
The Database Engine also provides rich support for sustaining high availability.Microsoft Machine Learning Services supports integration of machine learning, using the popular R and Python languages, into enterprise workflows.Machine Learning Services (In-Database) integrates R and Python with SQL Server, making it easy to build, retrain, and score models by calling stored procedures. Microsoft Machine Learning Server provides enterprise-scale support for R and Python, without requiring SQL Server.Integration Services is a platform for building high performance data integration solutions, including packages that provide extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing for data warehousing.Analysis Services is an analytical data platform and toolset for personal, team, and corporate business intelligence. Servers and client designers support traditional OLAP solutions, new tabular modeling solutions, as well as self-service analytics and collaboration using Power Pivot, Excel, and a SharePoint Server environment. Analysis Services also includes Data Mining so that you can uncover the patterns and relationships hidden inside large volumes of data.Reporting Services delivers enterprise, Web-enabled reporting functionality. You can create reports that draw content from a variety of data sources, publish reports in various formats, and centrally manage security and subscriptions.Replication is a set of technologies for copying and distributing data and database objects from one database to another, and then synchronizing between databases to maintain consistency. By using replication, you can distribute data to different locations and to remote or mobile users by means of local and wide area networks, dial-up connections, wireless connections, and the Internet.SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) provides you with a knowledge-driven data cleansing solution.
DQS enables you to build a knowledge base, and then use that knowledge base to perform data correction and deduplication on your data, using both computer-assisted and interactive means. You can use cloud-based reference data services, and you can build a data management solution that integrates DQS with SQL Server Integration Services and Master Data Services.Master Data Services is the SQL Server solution for master data management.
A solution built on Master Data Services helps ensure that reporting and analysis is based on the right information. Using Master Data Services, you create a central repository for your master data and maintain an auditable, securable record of that data as it changes over time. Migrate and move data.Update your version of SQL Server.
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