Exam Ref 70-761 Querying Data with Transact-SQL
Exam Ref Series

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-761?and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of SQL Server 2016 Transact-SQL data management, queries, and database programming. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

? Filter, sort, join, aggregate, and modify data

? Use subqueries, table expressions, grouping sets, and pivoting

? Query temporal and non-relational data, and output XML or JSON

? Create views, user-defined functions, and stored procedures

? Implement error handling, transactions, data types, and nulls

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

? Organizes its coverage by exam objectives

? Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you

? Assumes you have experience working with SQL Server as a database administrator, system engineer, or developer

? Includes downloadable sample database and code for SQL Server 2016 SP1 (or later) and Azure SQL Database

Querying Data with Transact-SQL

About the Exam

Exam 70-761 focuses on the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and query data and to program databases

with Transact-SQL in SQL Server 2016.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam earns you credit toward a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) certification that demonstrates your mastery of essential skills for building and implementing on-premises and cloud-based databases across organizations. Exam 70-762 (Developing SQL Databases) is also required for MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Development certification.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learning

CHAPTER 1 Manage data with Transact-SQL

CHAPTER 2 Query data with advanced Transact-SQL components

CHAPTER 3 Program databases by using Transact-SQL 

Itzik Ben-Gan, mentor and cofounder of SolidQ, authored its Advanced T-SQL and T-SQL Fundamentals courses. A Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 1999, he has delivered T-SQL querying, tuning, and programming training worldwide. His books include T-SQL Querying and T-SQL Fundamentals.

• Authoritative and complete MCSA Exam 70-761 preparation content, straight from Microsoft
• Covers key skills associated with managing data and programming databases with Transact-SQL, and querying data with advanced Transact-SQL components
• Organized by exam objectives for efficient study
• Strategic, what-if scenarios challenge you as an exam candidate, helping you master the big-picture thinking the exam demands
• Contains up-to-date exam preparation tips from an acknowledged leader in SQL Server training