[AccessD] SQL server learning

"the SS Management Studio is a magnificent tool"...

Oh yes.  I really like using it - once you get your head around some basics 
it really is fun.  Don't try to learn too much too fast Bill.  Just have a 
play with it first.

Cheers
Darryl

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gustav Brock
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 4:38 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] SQL server learning

Hi Bill

That's a decision you have to make. Be really good with T-SQL and as an SQL 
admin and spend your life with that, or just be familiar with it and have 
some fun as well.

I picked the last option. It's also a matter of taste. I find T-SQL plain 
ugly, can do a little, try to avoid it, and - if needed - ask someone more 
clever than me.

That said, the SS Management Studio is a magnificent tool, and just by 
playing around with it you can learn a lot. Also, join our SQL Server list 
which is followed by some true experts.

/gustav

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Bill Benson
Sendt: 30. juni 2014 06:29
Til: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Emne: [AccessD] SQL server learning

I finally have SQL server 2012 installed and am starting to learn a little 
about SQL server management studio. I have not seen much T-SQL before so 
watching all these complex scripts get written and dumped to the query 
editor as I do things is pretty intimidating.

I thought I could cut my learning curve a bit by downloading the 
AdventureWorks database. But that is a pretty sophisticated animal,  at 
least in 2012 and later.

I think I have to take a step back and ask myself what I am trying to learn. 
Telling myself I am trying to learn SQL server is a bit nebulous and overly 
ambitious.

But when a job description says experience with SSRS and SSIS a plus ...
And I want the job... I want to at least demonstrate I can do something.

In case you are wondering if there is a question here... Not really. I feel 
too I whelmed to even ask a question.

Aye aye AYE.
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