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sqlnaive
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Posted Friday, October 19, 2012 7:04 AM
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Hello SQL Gurus,
I want to sharpen by logics in making efficient SQL queries. Is there any book or any website which provides questions on SQL queries ?
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Brandie Tarvin
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Posted Friday, October 19, 2012 10:53 AM
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SQL Server Books Online should be your first resource in understanding how queries work.
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals can give you the basics in writing the SELECT statement (the heart of all SQL queries).
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Sean Lange
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Posted Friday, October 19, 2012 11:04 AM
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What you are describing is a process not an event. There isn't a book you can read and when you finish you are now able to write efficient queries. One of the best ways to improve is to hang around there forums, try answering questions, read what others are doing, read lots of articles, try new stuff. Writing efficient queries is what is learned through experience.
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Posted Friday, October 19, 2012 5:19 PM
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Look for books and articles by Itzik Ben-Gan; his stuff on T-SQL is superb.
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sqlnaive
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Posted Monday, October 22, 2012 1:08 AM
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Hi Brandie, Sean, ScottPletcher, I understand there can be no book on T-Sql which you can finish reading and say "Yeah, I'm the man now". It was just like, if there are any books on T-SQL puzzles for newbees, some SQL challenges which can enhance the SQl writing skills. There must be some authors for MS SQL Server who love to write SQL challenges for different scenarios.
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Brandie Tarvin
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SQL challenges don't help you improve your query logic, they just encourage people to use what they know. If you're trying to sharpen your skills, read up on best practices and participate in the forums trying to help other people. And learn to use Profiler and execution plans so you can better understand the flaws in your code logic.
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Jeff Moden
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sqlnaive (10/22/2012)
Hi Brandie, Sean, ScottPletcher, I understand there can be no book on T-Sql which you can finish reading and say "Yeah, I'm the man now". It was just like, if there are any books on T-SQL puzzles for newbees, some SQL challenges which can enhance the SQl writing skills. There must be some authors for MS SQL Server who love to write SQL challenges for different scenarios.
Gosh, if you want challenges, start answering questions on these forums.
If you want some base method that can be expanded to solve various challenges, here's a link to a list of articles that can really help. I know the guy personally!
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Authors/Articles/Jeff_Moden/80567/
There are some great authors on the "Authors" link on the left side of the page. I'll also second Itzik Ben-Gan's books.
Don't expect to get "smart" about it all overnight, though.
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First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
Stop thinking about what you want to do to a row... think, instead, of what you want to do to a column."
For better, quicker answers on T-SQL questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/
For better answers on performance questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/
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sqlnaive
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Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:38 AM
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Hi Jeff, please don't take me wrong way. It's like there is so many material on mathematics, physcs, chemistry puzzles. As Microsoft SQL Server T-Sql is so much popular and there is lots of stuff, blogs out there in net and lots of information, there must be some sites, blogs or books totally and entirely focused on pure T-SQL stuff on scenarios based situation.
Definitely there are some good questions in SQLServerCentral Question of the day and in some other sites but then those are not totally dedicated to t-sql. These are mix-ups of all the components of MS SQL. I was wondering if someone is interested mainly in developing Query writing stuff based on certain conditions, then there must be something for him/her.
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Brandie Tarvin
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Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:30 AM
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sqlnaive, have you tried google yet? There are definitely challenges out there, if that's all you're interested in. And they should come up easily in a search engine.
The key phrase is "T-SQL Challenges".
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sqlnaive
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Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:45 AM
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Thanks Brandie, Jeff and All. Found few sites.
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