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Reddit mentions of Murach's SQL Server 2012 for Developers (Training & Reference)
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Every application developer who uses SQL Server 2012 should own this book. To start, it presents the essential SQL statements for retrieving and updating the data in a database
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My class uses Murach's SQL Server 2012 for Developers (Training & Reference). I like it since there isn't too much fluff of tutorials.
Also here is a page with some past "problem statements"
If you're talking about a publicly available dataset, it will probably be in a delimited format, like .csv or .tsv. Go get MySQL or even the Microsoft SQL Server free version and then you'll just import your dataset into your server and then you can start querying. It's been a while since I've looked, but you might still be able to pick up a free copy of AdventureWorks here, which is a nice starter database w/ several tables so you can figure out how joins work. As for books, I like the Murach books. A nice one for conceptual stuff (first few chapters) is The Art of SQL