Best Books to Learn T-SQL?

• SilhouetteBS

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  June 10, 2015 at 9:14 pm

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  Greetings community members. I am curious what Books everyone would recommend reading to learn T-SQL from a beginning level? If you could let me know your favorite T-SQL books, why they are your favorite, and if possible a link to it on Amazon or another website. Thank you in advance for your feedback!

• Gail Shaw

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  June 11, 2015 at 1:42 am

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  Itzik Ben-Gan's T-SQL Fundamentals

  http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Server-Fundamentals-Developer-Reference/dp/0735658145/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434008301&sr=1-1&keywords=t-sql+fundamentals

  Gail Shaw
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• Grant Fritchey

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  June 11, 2015 at 3:40 am

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  Yep. Itzik's books are absolutely the best.

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