Overview
- Shows how non-relational data types can transform the way you store and interact with business critical data
- Introduces the growing amount of support within SQL Server for operations and data transformations that until now required third-party software and the associated licensing and development costs
- Presents what can be done inside the database engine with no additional costs or development time invested in outside software
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Widely used types such as JSON and XML are well-supported by the database engine. The same is true of hierarchical data and even temporal data. Knowledge of these advanced types is crucial to unleashing the full power that's available from your organization's SQL Server database investment.
SQL Server Advanced Data Types explores each of the complex data types supplied within SQL Server. Common usage scenarios for eachcomplex data type are discussed, followed by a detailed discussion on how to work with each data type. Each chapter demystifies the complex data and you learn how to use the data types most efficiently.
The book offers a practical guide to working with complex data, using real-world examples to demonstrate how each data type can be leveraged. Performance considerations are also discussed, including the implementation of special indexes such as XML indexes and spatial indexes.
What You'll Learn
- Understand the implementation of basic data types and why using the correct type is so important
- Work with XML data through the XML data type
- Construct XML data from relational result sets
- Store and manipulate JSON data using the JSON data type
- Model and analyze spatial data for geographic information systems
- Define hierarchies and query them efficiently through the HierarchyID type
Who This Book Is For
SQL Server developers and application developers who need to store and access complex data structures
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Book Title: SQL Server Advanced Data Types
Book Subtitle: JSON, XML, and Beyond
Authors: Peter A. Carter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3901-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Peter A. Carter 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3900-1Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3901-8Published: 23 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 392
Number of Illustrations: 103 b/w illustrations
Topics: Database Management