Where to start?

• Luis Cazares

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  April 7, 2016 at 7:55 am

  #1870488

  maylar (4/7/2016)

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  So far the online docs have been worthless. I don't need to learn about databases, I just need to understand how to navigate within this admin tool. I've worked with Oracle for many years but never SQL Server.

  Thanks for the "right click is your friend" note - indeed there are lots of tools just a click away.

  I'm sure I'll be hanging around here for a while.

  I'm not sure if this would help you, but you might want to give it a try. It's the SQL Server 2014 Essentials for Oracle DBAs course.

  https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/training-courses/sql-server-2014-essentials-for-oracle-dbas-9062?l=VGDAvmR4_7004984382

  Luis C.
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  Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

  How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2

• lnoland

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  April 7, 2016 at 9:59 am

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  maylar (4/7/2016)

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  So far the online docs have been worthless. I don't need to learn about databases, I just need to understand how to navigate within this admin tool. I've worked with Oracle for many years but never SQL Server.

  Thanks for the "right click is your friend" note - indeed there are lots of tools just a click away.

  I'm sure I'll be hanging around here for a while.

  Also, when designing tables in the IDE, there are a number of icons in the toolbar (hover the mouse over them to see what they are) which allow one to create/edit things like indexes, constraints, foreign keys, etc.

  - Les

• maylar

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  April 7, 2016 at 2:06 pm

  #1870655

  Jeff Moden (4/7/2016)

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  Ah. Got it. Considering the title of this thread is "Where to start", here's where to start with the very basics.

  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb934498.aspx

  The next step would appear to be...

  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174173.aspx

  Some Google searches that can provide other resources (used them to find the two links above)

  https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=how+to+use+ssms

  https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=features+of+ssms

  Awesome. Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for.