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Re: Going into DB war zone. Need help !

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From	vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com>
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On Jan 21, 9:42 pm, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> vaib (vaibhavpang...@gmail.com) writes:
> > Yes I found the first book very useful. Thanks a lot. Any other such
> > resources?
>
> Gosh! You've read it already. That was quick. :-)
>
> Michael Coles has a book "T-SQL Programmer's Guide" which also containts
> exercises. I have not read the book, but it seems to be a general survey
> of what's in the box.
>
> Another title is Adam Machanic's "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development". This
> is not a general book, but takes a deeper look at a specific problems to
> show what is possible. There is an SQL 2008 version of the book with
> different authors, but I don't think it holds the same standard.
>
> I would also like to recommend Alex Kuznetsov "Defensive Database
> Programming". Not everything he suggests may always be possible to implement
> in practice, but it can still serve as a en eye-opener.
>
> If you expect to venture into database design, Louis Davidson's "Pro SQL
> Server 2008 Database Design and Implementation" can teach you some best
> practices.
>
> And again, I definitely recommend to proceed with Itzik's two other books.
> Not only does he learn you all constructs how you can use, but he also
> looks at common problems that reoccurs every now and then.
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esq...@sommarskog.se
>
> Links for SQL Server Books Online:
> SQL 2008:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx
> SQL 2005:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx

Hey,

No I didn't read that book but I got myself one after carefully
analyzing it  :)

Thanks a lot for all the resources. Look into them right now.
Itzik seems to be like Jeffery Richter of SqlServer.

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Going into DB war zone. Need help ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2012-01-20 12:36 -0800
  Re: Going into DB war zone. Need help ! "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com> - 2012-01-20 15:58 -0500
    Re: Going into DB war zone. Need help ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2012-01-21 06:25 -0800
    Re: Going into DB war zone. Need help ! "Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-01-23 09:18 +0000
  Re: Going into DB war zone. Need help ! Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2012-01-20 23:32 +0100
    Re: Going into DB war zone. Need help ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2012-01-21 06:22 -0800
      Re: Going into DB war zone. Need help ! Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2012-01-21 17:42 +0100
        Re: Going into DB war zone. Need help ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 01:57 -0800

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