title: Beginning SQL Queries: From Novice to Professional (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
author:  Clare Churcher 
description: <strong>Clare Churcher</strong> is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Computing at Lincoln University, New Zealand. She holds a degree in physics with first class honors and completed a Ph.D in physics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has done postdoctoral research in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, England.
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  BOOKS FOR PROFESSIONALS BY PROFESSIONALS®
  
  
  THE EXPERT’S VOICE® IN SQL SERVER
  
  
  **Companion**
  
  
  **eBook Available**
  
  
  **Expert SQL Server 2008 Development**
  
  
  Dear Reader,
  
  
  There are already many books written about SQL Server, so why did I choose to
  
  
  SQL SerExpert
  
  
  help write yet another one? What makes this any different to the rest? The
  answer
  
  
  is that _Expert SQL Server 2008 Development_ , unlike most books on the
  subject, is
  
  
  not intended to provide a comprehensive reference to the features available in
  
  
  SQL Server 2008. Such information is available in _Microsoft Books Online_ ,
  and
  
  
  Alastair Aitchison,
  
  
  has been repeated in many books already. Instead, my aim is to share knowledge
  
  
  Author of
  
  
  and skills required to create first-class database applications, which
  exemplify
  
  
  best practices in database development.
  
  
  _Beg