Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you

Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Office 365, Office 2010, SQL Server 2012, Azure, and more.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2012/07/27/large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-sharepoint-visual-studio-windows-phone-windows-8-office-365-office-2010-sql-server-2012-azure-and-more/

Another large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks and Resource Kits for you, including: SharePoint 2013, Office 2013, Office 365, Duet 2.0, Azure, Cloud, Windows Phone, Lync, Dynamics CRM, and more.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2012/07/30/another-large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-and-resource-kits-for-you-including-sharepoint-2013-office-2013-office-365-duet-2-0-azure-cloud-windows-phone-lync-dynamics-crm-and-more/

Intro to SQL

Textbook References:

Textbook: Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming
ISBN: 978-1-1181-0228-2
Authors: Paul Atkinson, Robert Vieira

Software Requirements:

SQL Server Express Edition 2014 (free)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server-editions/sql-server-express.aspx

AdventureWorks Sample Databases and Scripts for SQL Server 2016 CTP3 (free)
http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/

whoami

Taking a little a joke from Unix, the whoami command (folvera@foo:~/whoami) returns who the user is.

I’ve been a systems programmer at BMCC for 13 years. I’ve also been an computer science instructor for 17 years — starting with DOS, writing batch files and other technologies working with Apache web servers via my personal website. I’ve recently returned to teach at BMCC — mainly SQL (structured query language).

I’m also an open source advocate and Unix enthusiast. My main system currently runs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).