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T-SQL for Beginners
Learn SQL Server Step by Step with Practical Examples, Exercises and Three Real-World Projects
This book is 100% completeLast updated on 2026-10-20
Learn SQL Server by doing real work, not by memorizing syntax. From your first SELECT to window functions, stored procedures and execution plans, with real results to check your own against.
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Learn SQL Server by doing real work, not by memorizing syntax.
T-SQL for Beginners takes you from your first SELECT to CTEs, window functions, stored procedures, transactions and execution plans. Every example runs on a free Microsoft sample database (Northwind, then AdventureWorks), and a running story keeps it practical: Sarah, a manager at a small company, sends you real requests, and you answer them one query at a time.
What's inside
- 6 sections that build on each other, from installing SQL Server to reading execution plans
- Real results shown for the important examples, so you can check your own output
- Exercises throughout, with all answers in Appendix A
- Three complete projects: a simple CRM, a payroll system and an e-commerce analysis
- The Practical Kit: cheat sheets, templates, checklists and database maps
- A plain-English glossary
- Four bonus chapters: landing your first freelance gig, SQL interview questions, using AI tools with SQL (and checking their work), and building a portfolio
What you need
A Windows PC, SQL Server Developer Edition and SSMS, plus the free sample databases. The book walks you through installing and setting up all of it.
About the author
Stefan is a SQL Server developer with ten years of experience in HR and payroll systems, where a wrong number has a real person attached to it. That is why this book keeps coming back to checking your results and changing data safely.
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About the Author
Stefan Stratulat
SQL Server developer with ten years of experience in HR and payroll systems.
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