In which order should we take the SQL stairways server tutorials?

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In which order should we take the SQL stairways server tutorials?

dulcetdiver

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September 24, 2019 at 3:13 am

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Should we start on the last page - the tutorials that start from 2011 - or should we start with the most recently posted tutorials?

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pietlinden SSC Guru Points: 63509 More actions · Answer 1

Why not take them in order? (Or am I missing something?)

dulcetdiver Valued Member Points: 64 More actions · Answer 2

Which way is the right order? There are stairways as far back as 2011. Do I start with those or do I start with the most recent tutorials? If they call it a stairway, shouldn't I start with the 'first step' instead of trying to jump all the way to the last step?

pietlinden SSC Guru Points: 63509 More actions · Answer 3

I would do the stairways in order. They're ordered in increasing complexity, generally.

Or are you asking how to order the stairways?

What are you trying to learn?

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dulcetdiver Valued Member Points: 64 More actions · Answer 4

So which way is the right order then? The most recently published tutorials or the oldest published tutorials?

I want to go through it all, but if these stairway tutorials build on top of each other, then I want to make sure I go in the correct order, you know?

pietlinden SSC Guru Points: 63509 More actions · Answer 5

I think you're making this harder than it really is. What specifically are you trying to learn? What kind of SQL questions are you trying to answer that you don't know how to?

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004412 More actions · Answer 6

The listed order of of the stairways have nothing to do with the order of a study plan. They're not collectively meant to be an "overall stairway" to learning SQLServer or T-SQL or anything else. Each stairway is an independent set of articles on a given subject. The articles within each stairway are normally in a logical order for the smaller subjects within the larger subject and that's about a close that you'll get to a "logical training order".

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736494 More actions · Answer 7

The stairway series are designed to help you learn a topic. They aren't intended as some training course.