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If you want to get an understanding of basic SQL without all that overhead, you can try Microsoft Access.


Oh god, no more Access. Access has a weird semi-dialect of SQL where it's insanely picky about how you position parenthesis in multiple join statements. I found it impossible to get a query right without the graphical query generator, and that's after routinely writing 5-10 table joins in T-SQL. No thanks, I'd recommend Sqlite over it anyday for a lightweight database. Works great on command line or in any of dozens of helper tools on any platform, and it's Free.


I agree with the SQLlite recommendation.


> basic SQL

That was easy. Think of it as close to set theory!

I needed to get through all the overhead stuff since I'm using SQL Server in the server farm for my startup. So, I have code for Web pages with ADO.NET and also some stand alone programs that do SQL Server queries. Again, the only difficult stuff was the overhead stuff, and it would appear that the Khan course would not cover that.




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