SQL Server Maintenance Plans by Brad McGehee

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 tasks, ranging from integrity checks, to database backups, to index reorganizations and rebuilds. View Full Description

Defensive Database Programming by Alex Kuznetsov

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 and robustness. View Full Description

Exchange 2010 - A Practical Approach by Jaap Wesselius

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 and top tips for SysAdmins, both new and experienced. View Full Description

The Best of SQLServerCentral.com, Vol.7 by SQLServerCentral.com Authors

The seventh volume in this collection brings you a compilation of the best articles we've seen over the past year, from over 50 authors. View Full Description

Protecting SQL Server Data by John Magnabosco

This book holds the key to "encryption without fear". In it, John Magnabosco sweeps away some of the misconceptions surrounding SQL Server's encryption technologies, and demonstrates that, when properly planned and implemented, they are an essential tool in the DBA's fight to safeguard sensitive data.View Full Description

SQL Server Tacklebox by Rodney Landrum

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, migrate data and manage data growth, troubleshoot performance issues, receive notifications of impending issues, secure access to your servers and fight off the data corruption monster...View Full Description

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How to become an Exceptional DBA by Brad McGehee
(2nd Edition, July 2009)

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 to advise those more-experienced on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs...View Full Description

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SQL Server Stumpers Vol.5 by SQLServerCentral.com Authors
(1st Edition, June 2009)

Whether you're practicing for an exam or interview, or just wanting to see who's got the biggest SQL Server brain in your office, this book is perfect. Containing 100 SQL Server Central Questions of the Day, this book is a great way to test yourself or increase your knowledge.View Full Description

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Confessions of an IT Manager by Phil Factor
(2nd Edition, May 2009)

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 Factor has pretty much "seen it all" and what's more he's prepared to tell what he knows. The second edition of Phil's "Confessions of an IT Manager" contains Phil's full repertoire of tales of institutional mayhem and software projects gone awry.View Full Description

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The Art of XSD by Jacob Sebastian
(1st Edition, April 2009)

When information is exchanged in XML format, you need an agreement between the sender and receiver about the structure and content of the XML document. This "agreement" takes the form of an XSD (XML Schema Definition Language) Schema. Jacob Sebastian's book explains all...View Full Description

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Mastering SQL Server Profiler by Brad McGehee
(1st Edition, January 2009)

Brad McGehee's "from the ground up" guide to SQL Server's most powerful performance diagnostic tool...View Full Description

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SQL Server Execution Plans by Grant Fritchey
(1st Edition, June 2008)

Why is my query running slow? Why isn't my index getting used? In order to answer these questions, you have to ask the same return question in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? Grant Fritchey provides the only dedicated and detailed guide to this essential topic...View Full Description

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SQL Server Crib Sheet Compendium by Amirthalingam Prasanna, Grant Fritchey, Phil Factor, Robert Sheldon, Robyn Page
(1st Edition, December 2008)

For everything you need to know, rather than want to know, about SQL Server Reporting Services, replication, backup, XML, performance, data warehousing and more... View Full Description

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Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008 by Brad McGehee
(1st Edition, September 2008)

SQL Server 2008 has hundreds of new features and improvements for Production DBAs, Developer DBAs, and Business Intelligence specialists…in this book Brad focuses on the ten most important new features for Production DBAs...View Full Description

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Best of SQL Server Central Vol 6 by SQLServerCentral.com Authors
(1st Edition, November 2008)

Best of SQLServerCentral v6 pulls together some of the best, most popular, and the most read articles of 2008, in dead tree format, covering database administration, BI, design, security, T-SQL, and most things in between...View Full Description

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Best of SQL Server Central Vol 5 by SQLServerCentral.com Authors
(1st Edition, November 2007)

Best of SQLServerCentral vol 5 pulls together some of the best contributions to SQLServerCentral.com in 2007...View Full Description

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Best of SQL Server Central Vols 1-4 by SQLServerCentral.com Authors
(1st Edition, June 2003)

Best of SQLServerCentral vols 1-4 pulls together some of the best contributions to SQLServerCentral.com between 2002 & 2006...View Full Description

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