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I'm a Lotus Domino programmer who is in between consulting jobs - not by choice the consulting job market really sucks right now.
With some extra time on my hands I would like to receive some SQL training as a resume booster and to expand my skill set.
SQL is something I have used in the past, but I need a way to document my knowledge on my resume.
Can anyone recommend a source of low cost SQL or mySQL training?
Derek
I think the lowest cost training you can get is just reading books from your library or Amazon (links below) and practicing at home. Practice makes perfect!
There is:
Learning MySQL
MySQL 5.0 Certification Study Guide
MySQL in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
If you are really looking for a cheap way, community colleges around my area are offering whole semester MSSQL (exam 70-431 outline) classes. Typical class would have 4 units (in California, community colleges charge $20/unit). Most of these classes are online, so flexibility and convenience are there schedule-wise.
You could go to 4-day bootcamps but those would usually cost $2-3K per class.
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I am looking for some sample SQL exercises/query (preferred MySQL, or SQLServer)to practice. It would be great if it is with some sample database.
Could someone please point to sql exercises for Sakila Database( MySQL Sample Database) or exercises with some other sample database.
I have already came across
http://courses.cs.tau.ac.il/0368-3458/databases201213a/assignments/hw1.pdf
and looking for more.
Thanks in advance,
Sambhav
There is a lot out there! Here are a few nice ones that offer (online) practice:
SQLZOO - lets you practice interactively with SQL queries for different database management systems;
SQLCourse.com - also an interactive tutorial that lets you
practice SQL queries;
Introduction to Databases - a Stanford online course with a lot
of explanatory video lectures. It is much more theoretical, but also
provides the possibility to practice with the stuff that's taught. (This course seems now to have been chopped up into 5 different smaller courses.);
GalaXQL - another interactive SQL tutorial using SQLite;
SQL-EX - seems to provide SQL exercises, but requires an
account.
Some sample databases can be downloaded here:
SQL Server 2008/2012/2014 -> AdventureWorks sample databases;
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In your opinion what is the best and most effective scrum opensource or freeware tool?
I am interested in your opinion and I look so forward to manage properly my backlog :-)
Trello
I currently use Trello for very simple projects. We also use it for all Stack Exchange planning, from snack to be bought this week to Trello cards with user stories.
Trello basically gives you cards and a virtual board. It's the basics of agile.
Rally
In the past I've been a very happy user of Rally which is totally free for up to 10 users - a good sized team.
Rally gives you stories, burndowns, tasks, sprints, quality and defect tracking.
Other tools
Online Plannning poker
Collaborative sticky notest for retrospectives
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We've been using OCS-NG to gather our computer inventory for the past 2 years. About 6 months ago, AVG Antivirus started picking up on the agent it uses to gather computer information as a "potentially harmful program". We've placed that in our ignore list, but the agent no longer appears to be updating our database. After much consideration and frustration trying to diagnose, I've decided to move away from OCS-NG as well as GLPI (with which it interfaces nicely).
I'm looking for a replacement for both of these applications, but primarily OCS-NG. My requirements are:
Open Source (preferably free)
Windows/Linux inventory agents
I would like it if the system was able to be integrated with a helpdesk system such as OTRS or the like.
Thanks
On this moment there is no 'canned' asset discovery solution which has an out-of-the-box integration with OTRS.
However, OTRS is able to import CI data from CSV files. Also, we're hard at work cooking up a new SOAP/REST/JSON interface.
We're planning on integrating with asset discovery solutions, and would be open for people wanting to help with us on creating and testing the integration, and/or help from anyone working on FOSS asset discovery projects.
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As a Microsoft .NET developer I have noticed a marked increase in the number of new Open Source frameworks and software tools that directly impact how your design a software solution. So much so that if you don't happen to be talking to the right person at the right time you may miss a whole major development. I started to wonder if there is anyone out there who is tracking and charting the "most active open source projects" over time. To be able to visualize what are the up and coming and most active open source projects appearing in any given space/category (e.g c#/web development space) would be incredibly useful. Searching around on the web I have only managed to find visualizations of specific projects (e.g. code_swarm and Gource) but nothing tracking Open Source projects over-all.
Do you know of any such sites?
http://www.ohloh.net/ is such a website - provides description, summaries and categorization for many open source projects; shows info about commit activities and lots of other useful info.
for an example check this out - http://www.ohloh.net/p/jQuery/analyses/latest
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To me it seems that classroom training gives us building blocks of technique, but rarely covers actually building anything large or complex, and even when classroom training covers "large projects" you are still just graded on getting the correct end result.
Where should people turn to learn the larger aspects of software design? Specifically where can people go to learn actual "best practices" when starting to work on mid size to large projects/systems? (With less theory and more application)
(My focus would be on .NET and C#, but the question is valid for any technology)
Code complete - by Steve McConnell
Pragmatic programmer - by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering - by Robert Glass
In my experience, the only way to learn how to design and develop large projects is to work on such a project. This is inevitable when you consider that most large project problems are to do with communication - between team members and between code modules. This is something that is almost impossible to simulate in the classroom (I've tried).
One place: industry. This could be as an internship if you're still in college, or as a job if you're out of college. There's no place for you to learn the standard practices like at a company full of people developing software.
Code code code
Make mistakes, fix them
Ask for help - SO is great for that!
even when classroom training covers "large projects" you are still just graded on getting the correct end result.
You seem to be awfully concerned about how projects are graded. You shouldn't be.
Your grades are of course important, but they shouldn't be the end-all be-all of your university experience. You are there (presubably paying tens of thousands of dollars) to learn. Get your money's worth. Good grades should be a by product of the fact that you are learning the material well, not the other way around.
Your large projects in school will probably be your most important learning experience. Mine was where I first really came face to face with issues like:
The importance of design before coding
Communications between developers working the same project
Dealing with the very real differences in capabilities between developers
Dealing with the differences in motivation between developers
The nessecity of using revision control
Software integration
The whole experience ended up being a major topic in the job interview for the job I finally got after graduation.
I think we got a B on our project, but that was totally beside the point.