Paul Atkinson - Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming

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Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming

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This book is dedicated to my parents, and to the unique perspective they provide from the union of the often professorial Atkinsons and the utterly hilarious Walshes. If any fraction of their wit has leaked through into its pages, this book will have succeeded.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

PAUL ATKINSON has been working with database technology since his days at Microsoft in the early 1990s, where he learned Microsoft Access first as a side project and later as a support rep. From there he went on to get a degree in Computer Science from Portland State University, rode the dot-com wave as a DBA, and came out of the dot-com bust as a contractor primarily in the health care industry. Currently, Paul works for Huron Healthcare as a BI Architect and Team Lead developing both traditional and real-time BI solutions. His training classes in high-performance T-SQL programming are among the most popular course offerings available at Huron. Paul, his wife Kristin, and their daughter Maureen love living in Portland, Oregon. When hes not working or writing Paul plays on multiple soccer teams, and otherwise keeps busy as a mountain biker, snowboarder, hasher, bicycle commuter, chairman of the school site council, proud member of the Timbers Army, and semi-professional chocolatier. As Robert Heinlein wrote, specialization is for insects.

ROBERT VIEIRA is a Software Architect with Huron Consulting Group and is considered one of the leading authorities on Microsoft SQL Server. He speaks at conferences nationally and is well known for his unique tutorial approach in his teaching and writing.

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR

ERIC ALDINGER is a quality assurance engineer working out of Portland, Oregon. He spends much of his time working on thorny data integration and data warehousing issues on green field development projects. Editing this text proves the improbable axiom that a University of California, Riverside, literature degree is good for something outside of academia, given enough time. Eric has many hobbies, none of which are of interest to readers of this book.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOBODY COMPLETES A PROJECT like this alone. Crafting a technical book thats readable despite the fairly dry material found therein takes an enormous amount of time and dedication, and thats not from the author its from those who support, guide, and encourage him. While there are many who helped with this, my first foray, there are a few without whom Id never have gotten through it.

Rob Vieira, whose efforts early on helped create the genre of the developer-centric SQL Server book, has probably contributed more to this title than anyone even me. Besides laying down a framework, Rob has also been a mentor and a friend, and without him, Id never have started on this effort at all. That said, Im sure hell be pleased when Ive finished, since hes probably bored of my escaping work before 6:00 to come home and write.

Bob Elliott, for giving me the chance based on nothing but a recommendation (albeit a good one).