Every application developer who uses SQL Server 2012 should own this book. To start, it presents the essential SQL statements for retrieving and updating the data in a database. You have to master these to work effectively with database data in your applications....

If you want to learn SQL, you?ve picked the right book. Unlike most SQL books, this one starts by showing how to use SQL queries to extract and update the data in a database, because that\'s what every programmer needs to know....