Re: Book recommendations?
- From: Erland Sommarskog <esquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:39:45 +0000 (UTC)
blueghost73@xxxxxxxxx (blueghost73@xxxxxxxxx) writes:
I do software support for software that works with both Oracle and SQL
Server, so I mostly just write queries to look at the data related to
the software. When I first started, I bought a couple of books to learn
the basics, intentionally going with generic books that would help with
both types of databases. I've got the basics down, and now I'm looking
for a really detailed reference book that goes really indepth into
querying for SQL Server specifically. Currently, we only work with the
2000 version, but we'll be going to 2005 soon, so I think I'd rather go
with a book on 2005, although if you know one that covers the
differences between them, that would be great. Any recommendations?
The ultimate book on writing queries on SQL 2005 simply must be "Inside
T-SQL Querying" by Itzik Ben-Gan on Microsoft Press. If there is a problem
he can't write a query for, then there is simple is no query to write - or
the query is not worth writing. I'm just about to read the book myself,
so I cannot say how much he compares with SQL 2000.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
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