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