Moving On

This chapter covers much of the “bits and pieces” you need to code in T-SQL. With what we discussed you’ll be able to get cracking and, within a few chapters, come up with some smart queries. You might not be ready to code the query that calculates the age of the universe, so a good “complete reference” to T-SQL or SQL is a good idea. This chapter, the ones that follow, and the goodies you will find in Appendix go a long way to providing that reference.

While we dealt with a lot of the basic ingredients, we also touched on some new data type and functions, which I will refer to in the chapters ahead. So, let’s move on to stored procedures and triggers and put some of the stuff we learned in this chapter to work.