Joe Celko Book Review: SQL and Relational Theory by C. J. Date SQL and Relational Theory, by Chris Date, isn't likely to be a book that SQL's greatest defender, Joe Celko, would... 26 September 2012 10 min read
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Chris Farrell Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management As well-engineered as the .NET framework is, it's not perfect, and it doesn't always get memory management right. To write... 19 June 2012 1 min read
Jaap Wesselius Exchange 2010 SP1 – A Practical Approach This update of Jaap Wessellius' popular guide to Exchange 2010 covers everything you need to know to install, run and... 17 January 2012 2 min read
Fabiano Amorim Complete Showplan Operators Fabiano Amorim has taken the time to really drill into the behavior of a small set of execution plan operators... 10 October 2011 2 min read
Jonathan Kehayias Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA Three SQL Server MVPs, and stalwarts of the SQLServerCentral and MSDN community forums, provide fascinating insight into the most common... 29 September 2011 2 min read
Glenn Berry SQL Server Hardware SQL Server Hardware will provide the fundamental knowledge and resources you need to make intelligent decisions about choice, and optimal... 08 December 2010 3 min read
Holger Schmeling SQL Server Statistics A Distribution Statistics object is a sampled map of the distribution of data in a table. Such statistics help the... 23 November 2010 3 min read
Benjamin Nevarez Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer This book will take you from the fundamentals of Statistics, Cost Estimation, Index Selection, and the Execution Engine, and guide... 08 November 2010 2 min read
Red Gate Books The Red Gate Guide to SQL Server Team-based Development This book shows how to use a mixture of home-grown scripts, native SQL Server tools, and tools from the Red... 02 November 2010 5 min read
Louis Davidson Tim Ford Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views This is the book that will de-mystify the process of using Dynamic Management Views to collect the information you need... 14 June 2010 4 min read
Michael Francis The SysAdmin Handbook – The Best of Simple-Talk Of almost a hundred Simple-Talk articles on topics of interest to System Adminstrators, we've chosen the best and most popular... 07 June 2010 2 min read
Tony Davis Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management views – eBook Download This is the book that will de-mystify the process of using Dynamic Management Views to collect the information you need... 15 March 2010 4 min read
Paul Glavich .NET Performance Testing and Optimization – The Complete Guide In the Complete Guide .NET Performance and Optimization, Paul Glavich and Chris Farrell offer a comprehensive and essential handbook to... 08 March 2010 4 min read
Alex Kuznetsov Defensive Database Programming Inside this book, you will find dozens of practical, defensive programming techniques that will improve the quality of your T-SQL... 22 February 2010 3 min read
Brad McGehee How to Become an Exceptional DBA, 2nd Edition A 2nd edition of Brad McGehee's popular "career guide" for DBAs, designed to help new and prospective DBAs find their... 30 July 2009 2 min read
Rodney Landrum SQL Server Tacklebox Inside the SQL Server Tacklebox you'll find day-to-day tools, scripts and techniques to automate and standardize SQL Server installation, document... 15 July 2009 3 min read
Phil Factor Confessions of an IT Manager, 2nd Edition The software industry is, just occasionally, more absurd than one would dare to imagine. Having spent most of his working... 11 May 2009 2 min read
Brad McGehee Mastering SQL Server Profiler Brad McGehee's "from the ground up" guide to SQL Server's most powerful performance diagnostic tool...… 30 January 2009 2 min read
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