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Ask HN: Learning resources for MS SQL Server?
I'm trying to move from an Access+VBA setup to MS SQL Server at work. I have some very basic half-baked knowledge of SQL and find myself spending a lot of time searching through the help files for trivial things.
Could you recommend any good beginner's tutorials and learning resources? I intend to write a reasonably large app (calculating road traffic emissions for London) over the next couple of months.
I am also beginning to use some R for statistical analysis; so some pointers on using R and SQL together would be useful too. Thanks.
- sker 18y agoI always have this opened in a tab: http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/Category:Microsoft_SQL_Server http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/Category:Microsoft_SQL... It's not exactly a beginner's tutorial but I like it because it covers a lot of use cases. Also, it's short and to the point. I hope you find it useful.
- revorad 18y agoCheers. That looks really useful.
- gaius 18y agoThere is loads of great content on MSDN, tutorials, references, magazine articles, etc.
- revorad 18y agothanks. i have looked on msdn from time to time when i'm looking for a specific thing. i must say i don't find the msdn layout and presentation style very exciting. but i will try and ignore that and use what's good. Thanks for reminding me about it.