Newbie

Hello everyone, am new to databases. Started of learning SQL on my own
and using SQL Server 2k... any pointers from ya'll abt my approach...
got familiar with some basic stuff abt SQL and SQL Server.. hope all of
you would gimme good suggestions..Mad wrote:
> Hello everyone, am new to databases. Started of learning SQL on my own
> and using SQL Server 2k... any pointers from ya'll abt my approach...
> got familiar with some basic stuff abt SQL and SQL Server.. hope all of
> you would gimme good suggestions..

Good suggestions about what?|||depends on what you know about suggesting someone asking you a
question, seems by your question that u needs suggestions as well...
thats nice... and abt " Good suggestions about what? " -- reead this
"am new to databases. Started of learning SQL on my own
and using SQL Server 2k... any pointers from ya'll abt my approach...
".. i requested for suggestions about hw to start things off...
something that you might want to put in thinking of how u started
off... take care ZeldorBlat|||On 16 Jan 2006 06:55:55 -0800, Mad wrote:

>Hello everyone, am new to databases. Started of learning SQL on my own
>and using SQL Server 2k... any pointers from ya'll abt my approach...
>got familiar with some basic stuff abt SQL and SQL Server.. hope all of
>you would gimme good suggestions..

Hi Mad,

Here are some good places to start:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...Go.x=12&Go.y=13

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...Go.x=13&Go.y=15

Probably not what you hoped for, but the subjects of SQL and SQL Server
are just too broad and too complicated to be explained in a newsgroup
message.

--
Hugo Kornelis, SQL Server MVP|||Start with a book on RDBMS basics, so you have a foundation. You will
probably also have to learn how to think in a declarative progamming
language. I find that takes about a year of full-time coding and some
people never get it.

After that, get an intro book on SQL and apy attention to the syntax
quirks.

After you get thru that book, get a copy of SQL FOR SMARTIES for the
advanced programming tricks.|||> After you get thru that book, get a copy of SQL FOR SMARTIES for the
> advanced programming tricks.

But, be warned this book is based on standard SQL so a lot of the examples
won't work or there are better ways of coding using some of the built-in
functions of SQL Server.

Check out some of Itzik-Ben Gan's books which are more appropriate to SQL
Server and contain far better and more scalable examples.

--
Tony Rogerson
SQL Server MVP
http://sqlserverfaq.com - free video tutorials

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> Start with a book on RDBMS basics, so you have a foundation. You will
> probably also have to learn how to think in a declarative progamming
> language. I find that takes about a year of full-time coding and some
> people never get it.
> After that, get an intro book on SQL and apy attention to the syntax
> quirks.
> After you get thru that book, get a copy of SQL FOR SMARTIES for the
> advanced programming tricks.