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