Welcome to the official SQL University Bookstore! Here we’ll be listing a collection of SQL books that administrators around the globe keep on their shelves or just generally highly recommend. If there’s a text you would like to see introduced into the bookstore leave your recommendation in the comments section below. This page will be updated as often as possible to keep current.
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How to Become an Exceptional DBA, 2nd Editionby Brad M McGehee (Author), Tony Davis (Editor) |
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SQL Server MVP Deep Divesby Paul Nielsen (Author), Kalen Delaney (Author), Adam Machanic (Author), Kimberly Tripp (Author), Paul Randal (Author), Greg Low (Author) |
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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer)by Kalen Delaney (Author) , Paul S. Randal (Author), Kimberly L. Tripp (Author), Conor Cunningham (Author), Adam Machanic (Author) |
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Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Paperback)Christian Bolton(Author), Justin Langford(Author), Brent Ozar(Author), James Rowland-Jones(Author), Steven Wort(Author) |
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DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA (Paperback)Thomas LaRock(Author)
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Pro SQL Server 2008 Policy-Based Management (Paperback)Ken Simmons(Author) Colin Stasiuk (Author) Jorge Segarra (Author)
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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Queryingby Itzik Ben-Gan (Author),Lubor Kollar(Author), Dejan Sarka (Author), Steve Kass (Author) |
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SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert’s Voice in SQL Server)by Grant Fritchey (Author) , Sajal Dam (Author) |
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Expert SQL Server 2005 Developmentby Adam Machanic (Author) ,Hugo Kornelis (Author) ,Lara Rubbelke (Author) |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultantby William R. Stanek (Author) |
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SQL Server 2008 Administration in Actionby Rod Colledge (Author) |
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Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementationby Louis Davidson (Author), Kevin Kline (Author), Scott Klein (Author), Kurt Windisch (Author) |
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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrationby Brian Knight (Author) , Ketan Patel (Author), Wayne Snyder (Author), Ross LoForte (Author), Steven Wort(Author) |
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SQL Server Execution Plansby Grant Fritchey (Author) |
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SQL Server Forensic Analysisby Kevvie Fowler (Author) |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administrationby Ross Mistry (Author) |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Problem-Design-Solutionby Erik Veerman (Author), Jessica M. Moss (Author), Brian Knight (Author), Jay Hackney (Author) |
I can’t tell you what to put on your bookshelf but if you already own “Expert SQL Server 2005 Development” there is probably no reason to buy the 2008 book. From what I’ve been told the new author is doing only a light update on most of the topics, updating the product name from “2005” to “2008”. There will be a new chapter on spatial data, but that topic is too big for a single chapter anyway so I don’t think it will be especially valuable. Grab the 2005 edition instead–almost 100% of the material still applies to 2008 (everything but spatial), and you can probably get it at a steep discount compared with the brand new 2008 edition.
Cool, thanks for that tip Adam!
There’s no Book about MDX and more SSAS stuff
I need to update bookstore with latest content. I’ve been busy for months on other projects, my apologies.