Background: acompany came to uswith a request: they had a lot of smart people who wanted to learn the basics of T-SQLin a day. Could webuild an intro-to-T-SQL course that didn’t suck? Well, sure as long as we could give it away free on the site. So here it is:
You work for a company that’s got a lot of data in Microsoft SQL Server, and you want to work with it but you’re not sure how to start. You’re also afraid that your queries might be “bad,” and you don’t want to cause problems on someone else’s server even when you need to work with a lot of data.
In this one-day self-paced course, we’re going to cover:
How to write a SELECT query to get data out of one table How to filter the data to find just what we want How to sort data How to join multiple tables together How to tell if our query will be slow before we run it What books, videos, and web sites to use for learning moreTo explain it all, we’re going to usethe StackOverflow.com site,database, and their open-source Data Explorer (it’s like a web-based SSMS). You’ll learn the basics of the StackOverflow database, look at a page on StackOverflow.com, and then write a query to deliver similar data.
Head on over and get started , and let us know what you think.
Brent Ozar
I make Microsoft SQL Server faster and more reliable. I love teaching, travel, and laughing.
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