Itzik
Review of Itzik Ben-Gan’s Books
I’ll start by saying this isn’t a paid review nor do I have any association with SolidQ publishing.
T-SQL Fundamentals (third edition) was highly recommended as a read for the 70-761 exam along with his other two books, T-SQL Querying and Training Kit (Exam 70-461): Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Looking at the three books, you can gather the fundamentals book is probably more base skill set and the exam is structured for obviously an exam. So are all three books worth a read? Which ones should you read and in what order?
Passed the 70-761 exam, Querying with Transact-SQL!
Hurray, I passed 70-761! That means you can too!I just thought I’d share briefly how I passed the exam. As a note, the below is how I studied and what I studied, it may or may not be what was on the exam as they change the exams and I cannot discuss what was on the exam directly. Nor can I answer any specifics to the exam, you can find all of this information on Microsoft’s website. I am going to share however, how I got to the point to where I felt comfortable taking and then passing the exam.