Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Give the virtual machine a name. In my case, I have named my virtual machine GRESQL2014."

A block of code is set as follows:

CREATE DATABASE TestDB1  
ON 
(NAME = TestDB1_data, 
   FILENAME = 'https://gresqlstorage.blob.core.windows.net/sqldata/TestDB1Data.mdf') 
 LOG ON 
(NAME = TestDB1_log, 
    FILENAME = 'https://gresqlstorage.blob.core.windows.net/sqldata/TestDB1Log.ldf') 
GO

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

CREATE CREDENTIAL [https://gresqlstorage.blob.core.windows.net/sqldata]
WITH IDENTITY='SHARED ACCESS SIGNATURE',
SECRET = 'sr=c&si=SQLDATA&sig=PtQi1NXUuJz%2BGCUkpdgEBS4o4Lo60FjTbfJ2dNx3XX8%3D'

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Click on the SQL DATABASES option in the left-hand side menu".