Looking for a godd SQL Server Specific Tutorial

  • I am looking for a good online (preferably free) online SQL Server 2005 tutorial. I am looking for one that concentrates on SQL Server specifically. Things like installing, creating, maintaining. It should explain how to use the SQL Serve UI in depth. I do not need something that is going to explain to me what a table, row, column, relationship, or a primary key is. I understand databases I need to know how to use SQL Server. Any suggestions?

  • You can search the articles on this site. JumpstartTV is a video site that has a lot of SQL Server content (under 5 minute videos on a lot of the basics).

    Brad McGahee on SimpleTalk has several good posts as well.

    edit -> fixed linkto Simple-Talk as I forgot the "-"

  • I'm not aware of a good, all encompassing SQL Server 2005 tutorial. I'm with Jack. You'll need to hit JumpstartTV, Simple-Talk, and of course, here at SSC, to get the articles you need. Other than that, there are some great books out there and the Book Online (SQL Server documentation) are available at msdn.microsoft.com.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • All of that information is available in Books Online, as well.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

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