What is T-SQL
Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is the set of programming using SQL Server. The Structured Query Language is commonly called Transact-SQL. All applications that communicate with an instance of SQL Server do so by sending Transact-SQL statements to the server, regardless of the user interface of the application. SQL, often expanded to Structured Query Language, is a standardized computer language that was originally developed by IBM for querying, altering and defining relational databases, using declarative statements.Transact-SQL enhances the power of SQL and minimizes the occasions on which users must resort to a programming language to accomplish a desired task.
History of Transact-SQL product and the context of use in database clients, servers, and web components is reviewed and demonstrated. Transact-SQL's capabilities go beyond the ISO standards and the many commercial versions of SQL. T-SQL extend the SQL standard in terms of procedural programming, supporting various functions for string processing, mathematics, date processing etc. Transact-SQL is considered Turing complete by these features.
The SELECT statement is used for retrieving data from a table. This SQL Statement begins with the keyword SELECT. The results from the SELECT query is called the 'Resultset'. Look at the example given below using SELECT statement for calculation's.:
Addition (+)
Query: SELECT 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5+ + 9+15+85+63+525+78745
Output: 79457
Subtraction (-)
Query: SELECT 125-100
Output: 25
Multiplication (*)
Query: SELECT 13.7858 * 3.58
Output: 49.353164
Division (/)
Query: SELECT 875.958/23.22
Output: 37.72428940
Combination
Query: SELECT (785.0 - 150.0)/12.0
Output: 52.916666
