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LICENSE.txt

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+Freeware License, some rights reserved
+
+Copyright (c) 2012 Jason Brimhall, David Dye, Timothy Roberts, Wayne Sheffield, Jonathan Gennick, and Joseph Sack
+
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+Users are also allowed and encouraged to submit corrections and modifications 
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+
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+
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+
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+

README.md

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+#Apress Source Code
+
+This repository accompanies [*SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes*](http://www.apress.com/9781430242000) by Jason Brimhall, David Dye, Timothy Roberts, Wayne Sheffield, Jonathan Gennick, and Joseph Sack (Apress, 2012).
+
+![Cover image](9781430242000.jpg)
+
+Download the files as a zip using the green button, or clone the repository to your machine using Git.
+
+##Releases
+
+Release v1.0 corresponds to the code in the published book, without corrections or updates.
+
+##Contributions
+
+See the file Contributing.md for more information on how you can contribute to this repository.

ReadMe.txt

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+Welcome! You have just opened the ReadMe file for the example source code archive for the following book:
+
+	SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes
+	by Jason Brimhall, David Dye, Timothy Roberts, Wayne Sheffield, Jonathan Gennick
+	978-1430242000
+
+Source code is organized in .sql files by chapter. For example, the solution snippets from chapter 1 are in the file ch01.sql. 
+
+Enjoy the examples!

ch01.sql

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+1.1. Connecting to a Database
+
+USE AdventureWorks2008R2;
+
+
+1.2. Retrieving Specific Columns
+
+SELECT  NationalIDNumber,
+        LoginID,
+        JobTitle
+FROM    HumanResources.Employee;
+
+
+1.3. Retrieving All Columns
+
+SELECT  *
+FROM    HumanResources.Employee;
+
+
+1.4. Specifying Rows to Be Returned
+
+SELECT  Title,
+        FirstName,
+        LastName
+FROM    Person.Person
+WHERE   Title = 'Ms.';
+
+SELECT  Title, 
+        FirstName, 
+        LastName
+FROM  Person.Person 
+WHERE Title = 'Ms.' AND 
+        LastName = 'Antrim';
+
+
+1.5. Renaming the Output Columns
+
+SELECT  BusinessEntityID AS "Employee ID",
+        VacationHours AS "Vacation",
+        SickLeaveHours AS "Sick Time"
+FROM    HumanResources.Employee; 
+
+
+1.6. Building a Column from an Expression
+
+SELECT  BusinessEntityID AS EmployeeID,
+        VacationHours + SickLeaveHours AS AvailableTimeOff
+FROM    HumanResources.Employee; 
+
+
+1.7. Providing Shorthand Names for Tables
+
+SELECT  E.BusinessEntityID AS "Employee ID",
+        E.VacationHours AS "Vacation",
+        E.SickLeaveHours AS "Sick Time"
+FROM    HumanResources.Employee AS E;
+
+
+1.8. Negating a Search Condition
+
+SELECT  Title,
+        FirstName,
+        LastName FROM  Person.Person 
+WHERE NOT (Title = 'Ms.' OR Title = 'Mrs.');
+
+
+1.9. Specifying a Range of Values
+
+SELECT  SalesOrderID,
+        ShipDate
+FROM    Sales.SalesOrderHeader
+WHERE   ShipDate BETWEEN '2005-07-23T00:00:00'
+                 AND     '2005-07-24T23:59:59'; 
+
+
+1.10. Checking for NULL Values
+
+SELECT  ProductID,
+        Name,
+        Weight
+FROM    Production.Product
+WHERE   Weight IS NULL;
+
+
+1.11. Providing a List of Values
+
+SELECT  ProductID,
+        Name,
+        Color
+FROM    Production.Product
+WHERE   Color IN ('Silver', 'Black', 'Red');
+
+
+1.12. Performing Wildcard Searches
+
+SELECT  ProductID,
+        Name
+FROM    Production.Product
+WHERE   Name LIKE 'B%';
+
+UPDATE  Production.ProductDescription
+SET     Description = 'Chromoly steel. High % of defects'
+WHERE   ProductDescriptionID = 3;
+
+SELECT  ProductDescriptionID,
+        Description
+FROM    Production.ProductDescription
+WHERE   Description LIKE '%/%%' ESCAPE '/';
+
+
+1.13. Sorting Your Results
+
+SELECT  p.Name,
+        h.EndDate,
+        h.ListPrice
+FROM    Production.Product AS p
+        INNER JOIN Production.ProductListPriceHistory AS h
+            ON p.ProductID = h.ProductID
+ORDER BY p.Name,
+        h.EndDate;
+
+1.14. Specifying Sort Order
+
+SELECT  p.Name,
+        h.EndDate,
+        h.ListPrice
+FROM    Production.Product AS p
+        INNER JOIN Production.ProductListPriceHistory AS h
+            ON p.ProductID = h.ProductID
+ORDER BY p.Name DESC,
+        h.EndDate DESC;
+
+1.15. Sorting by Columns Not Selected
+
+SELECT  p.Name
+FROM    Production.Product AS p
+ORDER BY p.Color; 
+
+
+1.16. Forcing Unusual Sort Orers
+
+SELECT  p.ProductID,
+        p.Name,
+        p.Color
+FROM    Production.Product AS p
+WHERE   p.Color IS NOT NULL
+ORDER BY CASE p.Color
+           WHEN 'Red' THEN NULL
+           ELSE p.Color
+         END;
+
+
+1.17. Paging Through A Result Set
+
+SELECT ProductID, Name
+FROM Production.Product
+ORDER BY Name
+OFFSET 0 ROWS FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY; 
+
+SELECT ProductID, Name
+FROM Production.Product
+ORDER BY Name
+OFFSET 8 ROWS FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY;