Microsoft Transact-SQL: The Definitive Guide: The Definitive Guide

i have a good experience with this book, is a very good guide.!

This Guide is excellent for me as a previously knowledgeable person (regarding the SQL language, experience in developing RDBMS applications,  Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes other "programming"). I find that by using SQL Server Express and installing a database for the Guide's examples has helped me to improve not only my SQL use, but also my use of SQL Server. An excellent support for the Guide is the SQL Server Management Studio Environment and Visual Studio Express, which doesn't seem to link effectively to any Amazon.com Material less than $250 [ for a free Microsoft download? ]). Thank you Amazon.com and thank you MicroSoft for these tools. The Guide, I think starts too fast for the beginner, but could easily accommodate a beginning student being taught SQL -- after a basic introduction. The only text I have found @ Amazon.com is the text being reviewed; somehow SQL should link to economical texts, as should Visual Studio Express, and SQL Server Express (also a free download). I have not used or read any of the above linked volume.Please, Amazon, consider a way to link students to free internet study literature, along with the links to your products.

If you are looking for a good intro to T-SQL look no further than Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals by Itzik Ben-Gan. This title "Microsoft Transact-SQL: The Definitive Guide " has no code download link or CD. If they provide that, I may possibly change this review, and will be after i test drive the code. this book expects you to not only enter the SQL command manually, you also have to enter the data. Mr. Joe Celko always tells newsgroup user, to provide full code examples with their posts. Seems to me he didn't take his own advice .... don't waste your time or money and take my advice buy Itzik's book, you wont regret it.

I am a Web Developer making the switch over to become a DBA, I have worked with T-SQL in the pass but mainly just putting queries together. This book shows you how to write better queries and better stored procedures. It is very well stuctured and easy to understand I also like the fact that most of the code in the book you have to type which helps.

Garbus knows his SQL inside and out. Having heard him speak, I knew the book would be worth while.I am reading the book while I have SQL server up so I can practice the techniques.To say I am learning a lot from the book is an understatement.A must have addition to any SQL DBA's library.

Item came on-time and as described

Excellent book. For students or anyone needing a good reference book at work,

I was expecting a good reference, this book is a dissertation about perfectly formed code. It was a very bad choice for me.