Beginner programmer... book suggestion

• michael.horn

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  March 18, 2010 at 7:18 am

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  I currently have SQL 2000 but I will be upgrading it to 2008 in the next year. Before the upgrade i'm going to need to start learning how to pull the data out in a report format. Could someone suggest a good beginner's progamming book so i can do this? I've written some stored procedure to pull some basic data out, but i think with the next phase of this project they are going to need more data that's going to need some programming to get it out

  Thank you

• Garadin

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  March 21, 2010 at 10:30 am

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  These are all great books.

  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Server-T-SQL-Fundamentals-PRO-Developer/dp/0735626014/ref=pd_sim_b_7

  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Microsoft-SQL-Server-2008/dp/0735626030/ref=pd_sim_b_3

  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Microsoft-Server-2008-Pro-Developer/dp/0735626022/ref=pd_sim_b_3

  Don't mind the UK links, these should be available just about everywhere

  Seth Phelabaum

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• michael.horn

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  March 22, 2010 at 6:15 am

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  Thank you Seth! I'll give these a try.