Shawn McGehee SQL Backup and Restore A DBA's tasks, from day-to-day, are rarely constant; with one exception: the need to ensure each and every day that any database in their charge... 26 March 2012 3 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 maintain Exchange 2010 SP1.… 17 January 2012 2 min read
Red Gate Books EPUB versions of the books The EPUB versions of our books are available to download for members of the site.… 21 December 2011 1 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 in an effort to explain... 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 SQL Server problems, why they... 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 installation and configuration, of SQL... 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 Query Optimizer of SQL Server's... 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 you through the inner workings... 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 Gate SQL Toolbelt, to successfully... 02 November 2010 5 min read
Tim Ford Louis Davidson 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 to troubleshoot SQL Server problems.... 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 ones for an essential collection... 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 to troubleshoot SQL Server problems.... 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 anybody looking to set up... 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 code and increase its resilience... 22 February 2010 3 min read
Neil Davidson Don’t Just Roll the Dice – eBook Download Neil Davidson has created a short handbook with the theory, practical advice and case studies, to enable you to successfully price your software.… 26 October 2009 2 min read
Jaap Wesselius Exchange 2010 – A Practical Approach Jaap's Practical Guide to Exchange Server 2010 draws upon all that experience to deliver an easy-to-use guide to this latest platform, full of useful examples... 13 October 2009 2 min read
Brad McGehee Brad’s Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans Brad's Sure Guide to Maintenance Plans shows you how to use the Maintenance Plan Wizard and Designer to configure and schedule eleven core database maintenance... 02 October 2009 2 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 feet in the profession, and... 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 and report on your servers,... 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 life in its clutches, Phil... 11 May 2009 2 min read
