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The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Ken Henderson
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000
Don't waste your time - buy this book
+ If I could only have one book for sql server...
+ Excellent material, just getting a bit long in the tooth
+ Great recommendation!
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Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (Solid Quality Learning)
Itzik Ben-Gan, Lubor Kollar, ...
Microsoft Press, 2006
An excellent contribution to the "Inside-SQL" series
+ Fantastic in every way
+ Excellelent Intermediate or review
+ Pedantic
+ Excellent
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Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Andrew J Brust, Stephen Forte
Microsoft Press, 2006
Great book on programming new features
+ Great Reference!!!!!!!!!!!
+ New Favorite Reference Book
This book is clearly written and I feel it does a good job of covering the major new features of SQL Server 2005 well enough so you can get up to speed quickly and save enough time versus puzzling things out using just the online materials that come with SQL Server 2005 to easily justify the ...
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A Developer's Guide to SQL Server 2005 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Bob Beauchemin, Dan Sullivan
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006
Excellent resource for Dev's only
+ A good book
+ A great book for Database Developers
Bob's book is written for the passionate Microsoft developer. DBA's and IT Pro's will find this book useful to have on the shelf, as there are number of features that touch the life of the Admin. Additionally, AW press has released another book, SQL Server 2005 Distilled, if you are looking for ...
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The Rational Guide to SQL Server 2005 Service Broker (Rational Guides) (Rational Guides)
Roger Wolter
Rational Press, 2006
Written by the Program Manager for the Product
+ NO Fluff
Service Broker is part of Microsoft's continuing effort to expand into the enterprise software arena. It works in conjunction with SQL Server 2005 and provides for the asynchronous operation of the database and input/output. That is, you can input data intended for storage in the database and have ...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2000(TM) Performance Tuning Technical Reference (Pro-Technical Refere)
Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia, ...
Microsoft Press, 2001
Excellent
+ Good book to have just for reference
+ Great Book. If you read it you will understand why...
Considering the difficulty of the topic, this book is a fairly easy read. The single best thing about the book is that the advice is actionable. You can read this book and immediately begin tuning. Coverage is excellent - performance tuning, capacity planning, setting up disk drives, managing cpu, ...
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SQL Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
Anthony Molinaro
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
As a reference
+ A great book!
+ It is real cook book
+ MS SQL Server must be 2005
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Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook
Ken England
Digital Press, 2001
SQL best practices bible
+ Outstanding Reference Book
+ Best overall for SQL Server Tuning
+ Best book on performance tuning
+ This book rocks!!
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Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition
Graeme Simsion, Graham Witt
Morgan Kaufmann, 2004
Poor service from Amazon
+ Great price
+ Good, detailed book
I ordered this product from Amazon along with the "bonus" part 2 book, for which I paid an additional $20, but despite emails and telephone calls have never seen the "bonus" part 2
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Programming SQL Server 2005
Bill Hamilton
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006
Very definitive guide to sql server programming. Topics are up-to-date and well covered.
+ A Great Book for Learning New Features - Review of Database Administrator SQLAuthority.com
+ One of the best SQL Server programming book.
This book covers nearly all topics on SQL Server programming. It begins with the differences between the SQL Server 2000 and 2005. 2005 has new tools (SSMS, Profiler, BIDS, command line), data types, xml support, and .NET integration. Chapters 1-4 go over these topics in turn. The next series shows ...
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SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (A Problem - Solution Approach)
Joseph Sack
Apress, 2005
Excellent Practical Reference
+ One of the best SQL books out there!
+ Excellent learning aid for a SQL Server beginner
+ Great T-SQL Cookbook
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Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 (Learning)
Sikha Bagui, Richard Earp
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006
The title says it all!
+ Good Intro to Microsofts SQL Server
+ tells most of what you want to know about sql in a easy way
This is an excellent book. It's well written and provides good code examples for every concept. It is written for users who which to learn SQL on SQL Server 2005; the title of the book says it all!
After reading the book, it felt as if I had completed a university course with ...
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Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
Robert Vieira
Wrox, 2006
Good Book For Beginners.
+ Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
An Excellent Beginners book. I bought it for my friend to start on SQL SERVER 2005. I will definitely recommend it to any beginner. 5 Stars.
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Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming (Pro-Developer)
Itzik Ben-gan, Dejan Sarka, ...
Microsoft Press, 2006
T-SQL Book at Its Best!!!!!!!!!!
+ Excelent
This book has lots of sample code for developers to follow. I bought a book "Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000" written by Itzik Ben-gan about five years and loved the book. This book did great job in the SQL Scripts where you might need to spent sometime read through it.
This book ...
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Introduction to Database Systems, An (8th Edition) (Introduction to Database Systems)
C.J. Date
Addison Wesley, 2003
the database practitioner's bible
+ A great introduction to the theory and practice of database design
+ Best theoretical book on Database design ever!
+ A classic, to be read by any serious developer
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