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From: Gene Wirchenko on 22 Jul 2010 17:07 Hello: Well, I downloaded it. I think I installed it right, but I do not know enough to be sure. Now, what? Can someone please point me to what I need to study to get going? I do not want a huge list as much as I want a map. What should I study first? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko
From: Philipp Post on 23 Jul 2010 08:03 > Can someone please point me to what I need to study to get going? < Microsoft has a extensive documentation for this called "Books online" which can be downloaded as well or be browsed on the MS websites. This is the main source for questions and answers quite a lot of them. As you know SQL already, it should not be a big hurdle for you to get into this. As far as literature is concerned, there is certainly a ton of it on the market. Some names come to mind such as Kalen Delaney and Itzik Ben-Gan. Erland Sommarskog has an interesting website with some programming tricks. Then there is a site called sqlservercentral with a forum, newsletters and articles just about that product. brgds Philipp Post
From: Gene Wirchenko on 23 Jul 2010 18:23 On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:03:09 -0700 (PDT), Philipp Post <post.philipp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >>�Can someone please point me to what I need to study to get going? < > >Microsoft has a extensive documentation for this called "Books online" >which can be downloaded as well or be browsed on the MS websites. This >is the main source for questions and answers quite a lot of them. Let me try this again. WHERE DO I START? Part of the problem is that there is extensive documentation, etc., etc. I need some basic orientation. What of the extensive documentation should I be reading first and why? From there, I can pick up the rest. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko
From: Philipp Post on 24 Jul 2010 05:37 > Let me try this again. WHERE DO I START? < I would suggest first reading the introduction about what the product provides before looking at the details - begin at the beginning: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214.aspx Notice that not everything what is in the paid product (Standard, Enterprise, etc) is available in the Express version. Possibly you wish to upgrade lateron. Then the most important question is asking yourself what you want to do with it. Todays software packages are far too big to know it all, so it makes more sense picking the features for your job and looking at them first. - At least how I do see it. When you are stuck, a more active group is here: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming/topics brgds Philipp Post
From: Erland Sommarskog on 24 Jul 2010 06:45
Gene Wirchenko (genew(a)ocis.net) writes: > Let me try this again. > > WHERE DO I START? At your local bookstore. Or Amazon for that matter. There are certainly introductory books for SQL Server out there. I'm afraid that I don't have any direct recommendations. Or look for training in your area. I can agree that Books Online is maybe not the best way to start, as it is intended to be reference material. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel(a)sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx SQL 2000: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx |