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