Foreword
What Ken Henderson wanted to do is to write the best possible book on real, practical programming in Transact-SQL available, bar none. He succeeded. Ken had most of these tricks in his head when he started this book. When you work for a living, you tend to pick things up. If you are smart, you save them, study them, and figure out why they worked and something else did not work. If you are a nice person, you write a book so someone else can benefit from your knowledge. It is very hard for a person new to a language to walk into a project knowing only the syntax and a few rules and write a complex program. Ever try to get along in a foreign country with only a dictionary and a pocket grammar book?
Okay, we now have a goal for this book. ...
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