• I recognize that Kalen Delaney's book, SQL Server Internals, can be pretty advanced, but it's the kind of thing you read over and over again to build up knowledge. It's not great for moment by moment troubleshooting, but when you're trying to figure out how something works in order to prevent an error.

    And Jonathan's book.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning