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Summary
Microsoft Windows Azure SQL Database opens new horizons in
RDBMS applications. Cloud computing is the future. Azure SQL
Database represents the future today. Cloud relational database
design and cloud SQL (Structured Query Language) programming
teach-by-practical-diagrams-&-examples book for developers,
programmers, systems analysts and project managers who are new
to relational database and client/server technologies. The
Azure SQL Database textbook also for database developers,
database designers and database administrators (DBA), who know
some SQL programming and database design, and who wish to
refresh & expand their cloud RDBMS design & development
technology horizons. Familiarity with at least one computer
programming language, Windows file system & Excel is
assumed. Since the book is career advancement oriented, it has
a great number of 3NF database design examples with metadata
explanations along with practical SQL queries (over 1,400
SELECT queries) and T-SQL scripts, plenty to learn indeed.
Great emphasis is placed on explaining the FOREIGN KEY -
PRIMARY KEY constraints among tables, the connections which
make the collection of individual tables a database. The
database diagrams and queries are based on historic and current
SQL Server sample databases: pubs (PRIMARY KEYs 9, FOREIGN KEYs
10) , Northwind (PRIMARY KEYs 13, FOREIGN KEYs 13) and the
latest AdventureWorks series. Among them: AdventureWorks,
AdventureWorks2012 (PRIMARY KEYs 71, FOREIGN KEYs 90), &
AdventureWorksDW2008 (PRIMARY KEYs 27, FOREIGN KEYs 44). The
last one is a data warehouse database which is the basis for
multi-dimensional OLAP cubes. Sample databases installation
instructions are included. The book teaches through vivid
database diagrams and T-SQL queries how to think in terms of
sets at a very high level, focusing on set-based operations
instead of loops like in procedural programming languages. The
best way to master Azure T-SQL programming is to type the query
in your own SQL Server Management Studio Query Editor, test it,
examine it, change it and study it. Wouldn't it be easier just
to copy & paste it? It would, but the learning value would
diminish rapidly. You need to feel relational database design
and the SQL language in your DNA. SQL queries must "pour" out
from your fingers into the keyboard. Why is knowing SQL queries
by heart so important? After all everything can be found on the
web so why not just copy & paste? Well not exactly. If you
want to be an database designer & development expert, it
has to be in your head not on the web. Second, when your
supervisor is looking over your shoulder, "Joe, can you tell me
what is the total revenue for March using the cloud database?",
you have to be able to type the query without documentation or
SQL forum search and provide the results to your superior
promptly. The book was designed to be readable in any
environment, even on the beach laptop around or no laptop in
sight at all. All queries are followed by results row count and
/or full/partial results listing in tabular (grid) format.
Screenshots are used when dealing with GUI tools such as SQL
Server Management Studio. Mastery of the database design &
SQL programming book likely to be sufficient for career
advancement as a cloud database designer and cloud database
developer. ** Kalman Toth has been working with relational database
technology since 1990 . His relational database career since
then includes database design, database development, database
administration, OLAP architecture and Business Intelligence
development. Applications included enterprise-level general
ledger & financial accounting, bond funds auditing, stock
market feeds processing, broker-dealer firm risk management,
derivative instruments analytics, consumer ecommerce database
management for online dating, personal finance, physical
fitness, diet and health. He has designed over 20 databases.
His MSDN forum participation in the Transact-SQL and SQL Server
Tools was rewarded with the Microsoft Community Contributor
award in 2011 and 2012. Kalman has a Master of Arts degree in
Physics from Columbia University and a Master of Philosophy
degree in Computing Science also from. Accessibility:
kalmantoth@gmail.com .About the Author