This review is a reprint by permission from Jes Borland’s LessThanDot.com blog Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals Score: 4.5/5 Author: Kalen Delaney, Paul Randal, Kimberly Tripp, Conor Cunningham, Adam Machanic Pages: 784 Publisher: Microsoft Press, March 2009 Buy on Amazon: paperback ITBookworm Score: 4.5/5 Remember this moment? I...
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Flying back from the PASS Summit 2011, I was in the mood to skim my brand new copy of MVP Deep Dives 2 and make quick notes on my impressions of each chapter. I decided to go with just two or three tweet-length thoughts apiece. I’ve also given this book five out of five...
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In 2010, a group of 53 SQL Server MVPs got together on a simply brilliant project: Write a chapter on anything SQL Server-related you like, put them with the other 52 chapters, publish, and donate all the proceeds to charity. This year, they did it again. And this time, I was in on it!...
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Inside MS SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying Authors: Itzik Ben-Gan, with Lubor Kollar, Dejan Sarka, Steve Kass, and Kalen Delaney Paperback: 832 pages Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (March 25, 2009) Language: English ITBookworm Score: 5/5 I’m a big fan of Itzik Ben-Gan’s 2005 book of the same name, so I’ve been waiting for this...
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