Books

Books!

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Here’s a list of SQL Server books I recommend reading. These are Amazon affiliate links. Thanks for your support.

They are organized by author, and in no particular order of importance, quality, or anything other than how they appear on my bookshelf.

Ken Henderson

• The Guru’s Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals
• The Guru’s Guide to Transact-SQL
• The Guru’s Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures
• SQL Server 2005 Practical Troubleshooting

  

Kalen Delaney, et al

• Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine
• Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals

Itzik Ben-Gan, et al

• T-SQL Fundamentals
• T-SQL Querying

Louis Davidson, et al

• Pro SQL Server Relational Database Design and Implementation

Dmitri Korotkevitch

• SQL Server Advanced Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning

Laine Campbell, et al

• Database Reliability Engineering

Martin Kleppman

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Erik Darling

• Great Post, Brent Erik