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SQL Book Recommendation

  • January 26, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    #77177

    I have the "teach yourself SQL in 21 Days, second edition" book. Does anyone have any other recommendations for learning, writing and tuning good SQL code for SQL Server?

    thanks

  • January 26, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    #933001

    Read this forum. Look at the problems and the solutions. When you see something you don't understand, Google more information on it, or look and see if there's an article here written about it. Grant wrote a great book on execution plans that you might want to take a look at "Dissecting SQL Server Execution Plans" I believe it was.

    There are a lot of good books out there, but I find coming here and interacting with people and getting your solutions critiqued by others to be a lot more motivating than sitting at home reading a book.

    Seth Phelabaum

    Consistency is only a virtue if you're not a screwup. 😉

    Links: How to Post Sample Data[/url] :: Running Totals[/url] :: Tally Table[/url] :: Cross Tabs/Pivots[/url] :: String Concatenation[/url]

  • January 27, 2009 at 10:18 am

    #933346

    Thanks Garadin. I have recently joined this forum and will continue to read through it.

    ...russ

  • January 30, 2009 at 8:09 am

    #935574

    To be honest there is no quick way to learn T-SQL properly.

    The Ben-Gan and others Inside SQL Server books are very good if not alot of reading.

    I would recommend:

    INSIDE SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming

    AND

    INSIDE SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying.

    These books are for SQL 2005 but most aspects can be used in SQL 2000 and 2008 also.

    These forums are very good but you can get the answer you are looking for but not the concepts behind them.

  • January 30, 2009 at 8:15 am

    #935577

    Thanks Russell. I'll check them out.

    ...russ

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