Looking at getting my hands wet with a little MSsql database. Any advice on start books so i don't end up buliding a nightmare database?

6/4/2012 10:49:48 AM

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Relational-Database-Candace-Fleming/dp/0201114348/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338833324&sr=1-1

Seems like a good one.

I wish I could remember the textbook I had for my RDBMS class at State. I borrowed it from a friend for the class, I wish like I hell I'd actually purchased the thing.

There's a few core principles of RDBMS design that are critical learning (like normalization and normal forms) and then there is a second tier of realities of hardware and system implementations (indexes, views, triggers, transactions) that are really the foundations of good design.

6/4/2012 2:13:26 PM