Site for good SQL learnings

  • Hi to all give me a site that has a good content about SQL

    thanks:-)

  • well, u r on a great site already.......!!! 🙂

  • Mr. Kapsicum (10/7/2013)


    well, u r on a great site already.......!!! 🙂

    Oh Really??....Thank you:-)

  • Here you will find below marvelous pinches like

    1) real time issue with approaches taken by people

    2) some great and mind blowing solutions and explanations for #1.

    3) great linked article and other same scenarios experienced by other people.

    4) people will tell you what you did wrong.

    5) last but not least. masters will tell you; what and where to hit 😉

    -------Bhuvnesh----------
    I work only to learn Sql Server...though my company pays me for getting their stuff done;-)

  • Yep. This site is very good. You can also look to ask.sqlservercentral.com for simple question/answer style of issues. You can also look to Simple-Talk.com to for in-depth articles.

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    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • This site is fantastic as a starting point. I would also highly recommend SQLSkills.com, particularly their blogs.

  • Thanks to all:-)

  • The best learning is by doing, and I agree that this site is extraordinary for this.

    Pick a problem that someone has posted and try to solve it yourself. You need not post your solution (you can always subscribe to the thread without posting to it) but compare what you come up with against what others suggest.

    Not all solutions are equal. Judge them based on elegance and performance. Learn how to reliably test for performance using tools and articles suggested on this site.

    Use the site to identify the most common, best-practice solutions for a wide variety of cases (e.g., creating a delimited string, parsing a delimited string, PIVOTs and UNPIVOTs for some examples) and then learn/understand the various approaches to other problems so that you can extend them to cases where it may not be so obvious that they apply.


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • George M Parker (10/8/2013)


    This site is fantastic as a starting point. I would also highly recommend SQLSkills.com, particularly their blogs.

    SQLBlog.com also has quite some good bloggers.

    Need an answer? No, you need a question
    My blog at https://sqlkover.com.
    MCSE Business Intelligence - Microsoft Data Platform MVP

  • Koen Verbeeck (10/9/2013)


    George M Parker (10/8/2013)


    This site is fantastic as a starting point. I would also highly recommend SQLSkills.com, particularly their blogs.

    SQLBlog.com also has quite some good bloggers.

    Totally agree. I just finished reading Adam Mechanic's series on his spWhoIsActive stored procedure.

  • dwain.c (10/8/2013)


    The best learning is by doing, and I agree that this site is extraordinary for this.

    Pick a problem that someone has posted and try to solve it yourself. You need not post your solution (you can always subscribe to the thread without posting to it) but compare what you come up with against what others suggest.

    Not all solutions are equal. Judge them based on elegance and performance. Learn how to reliably test for performance using tools and articles suggested on this site.

    Use the site to identify the most common, best-practice solutions for a wide variety of cases (e.g., creating a delimited string, parsing a delimited string, PIVOTs and UNPIVOTs for some examples) and then learn/understand the various approaches to other problems so that you can extend them to cases where it may not be so obvious that they apply.

    Thanks Dwain..That's sound so "Fatherly Mentor"...Thank you and thanks to all...i got a long way to go:-)..but with God, I can always do it:-)..

  • enriquezreyjoseph (10/9/2013)


    dwain.c (10/8/2013)


    The best learning is by doing, and I agree that this site is extraordinary for this.

    Pick a problem that someone has posted and try to solve it yourself. You need not post your solution (you can always subscribe to the thread without posting to it) but compare what you come up with against what others suggest.

    Not all solutions are equal. Judge them based on elegance and performance. Learn how to reliably test for performance using tools and articles suggested on this site.

    Use the site to identify the most common, best-practice solutions for a wide variety of cases (e.g., creating a delimited string, parsing a delimited string, PIVOTs and UNPIVOTs for some examples) and then learn/understand the various approaches to other problems so that you can extend them to cases where it may not be so obvious that they apply.

    Thanks Dwain..That's sound so "Fatherly Mentor"...Thank you and thanks to all...i got a long way to go:-)..but with God, I can always do it:-)..

    :blush:


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

  • enriquezreyjoseph (10/9/2013)


    dwain.c (10/8/2013)


    The best learning is by doing, and I agree that this site is extraordinary for this.

    Pick a problem that someone has posted and try to solve it yourself. You need not post your solution (you can always subscribe to the thread without posting to it) but compare what you come up with against what others suggest.

    Not all solutions are equal. Judge them based on elegance and performance. Learn how to reliably test for performance using tools and articles suggested on this site.

    Use the site to identify the most common, best-practice solutions for a wide variety of cases (e.g., creating a delimited string, parsing a delimited string, PIVOTs and UNPIVOTs for some examples) and then learn/understand the various approaches to other problems so that you can extend them to cases where it may not be so obvious that they apply.

    Thanks Dwain..That's sound so "Fatherly Mentor"...Thank you and thanks to all...i got a long way to go:-)..but with God, I can always do it:-)..

    Thank you for posting this question. I've been wondering lately what other sites would people who frequent this site use, now I have an answer. I know when I have a question or problem this is the first site I come to, and I usually find my answer.

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