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  • October 22, 2012 at 9:48 am

    #1551472

    Along with what Grant stated, buy a copy of the SQL Server Developer's Edition, install it on your home machine and start practicing! Not sure how much the currect version costs but it used to be around $45 USD. It's worth its weight in gold so far as learning how to use SQL Server as a DBA goes.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    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.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)