We’re happy to announce the availability of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (ISBN 978-0-7356-5822-6), by Leonard Lobel and Andrew Brust. This book is a quintessential guide to the programming features in Microsoft SQL Server 2012, packed with the information you need to design, test, and deploy SQL Server databases. It explores the plethora of ways you can program SQL Server (and its cloud cousin, SQL Azure) to build custom applications and services. Today, SQL Server is more than a database—it’s a collection of services that includes robust relational data storage and retrieval, backup, security, reliability, reporting, data monitoring, Business Intelligence (BI), data integration, manageability features, and more. Most of these services are accessible to programmers for application ...read more