﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="2.0"><channel><title>SQLServerCentral.com Content tagged Book Reviews</title><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/</link><description>Content tagged Book Reviews posted on SQLServerCentral.com</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>360</ttl><managingEditor>sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)</managingEditor><item><title>Pro SQL Server 2005 Integration Services</title><description>A look at this book from James Wightman and Apress on the ETL subsystem in SQL Server.</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/63045/</guid><pubDate>2008/05/19</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/63045/</link></item><item><title>SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes</title><description>A short review of this book by Ben Forta giving you the basics of T-SQL</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/63044/</guid><pubDate>2008/05/16</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/63044/</link></item><item><title>Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services</title><description>A short review of the WROX red covered book that looks at Integration Services for the DBA.</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/63046/</guid><pubDate>2008/05/12</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/63046/</link></item><item><title>Performance Tuning</title><description>Performance tuning is an art or science, depending on who you talk to. SQL Server guru Joe Sack has authored a book on SQL Server 2005 T-SQL and brings us the performance tuning chapter as a preview.

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/2653/</guid><pubDate>2007/10/23</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/2653/</link></item><item><title>High Availability - Sample Chapter</title><description>Apress has been generous enough to provide us with a sample chapter from their book on SQL Server 2005 High Availability by Alan Hirt.</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/61231/</guid><pubDate>2007/10/03</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/61231/</link></item><item><title>A Replication Interview Book Review</title><description>Andy Warren has had a great deal of experience with SQL Server replication and just picked up a new book on the topic. Rather than the standard book review, he decided to conduct the review as an interview with the author.
</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/3142/</guid><pubDate>2007/08/17</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/3142/</link></item><item><title>Career Book Reviews</title><description>Working in the corporate world can be a challenge and most of us muddle through our careers without really having any formal training. Andy Warren has spent time proactively working on his career and learned a great many tips and tricks for succeeeding as an employee and a manager. He brings us a few book reviews that might help you cope with the strange corporate world in which so many of us work.


</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2998/</guid><pubDate>2007/05/23</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2998/</link></item><item><title>SQL Server 2005 Books</title><description>There have been a huge number of SQL Server 2005 books released in the last year, but which ones are worth buying? Here are reviews 
of three new books from one of the SQL Server gurus.

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/2919/</guid><pubDate>2007/04/11</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/2919/</link></item><item><title>SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm</title><description>With the release of SQL Server 2005, the paradigm of working with this database changed. Robert Pearl brings us a book review of the highly acclaimed book from one of the premier SQL Server consulting companies in the US: Scalability Experts.
</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/2652/</guid><pubDate>2006/11/01</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/2652/</link></item><item><title>Performance Tuning</title><description>Performance tuning is an art or science, depending on who you talk to. SQL Server guru Joe Sack has authored a book on SQL Server 2005 T-SQL and brings us the performance tuning chapter as a preview.

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/2653/</guid><pubDate>2007/10/23</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/2653/</link></item><item><title>First Impressions of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services</title><description>Impressions of this new book from Brian Kelley.</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2333/</guid><pubDate>2006/03/20</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2333/</link></item><item><title>A Guide to SQL Server 2000 Transactional and Snapshot Replication</title><description>Two MVPs at one shot in this one. SQL Server MVP Hilary Cotter has written a book on replication, one of the very few there are on this topic. And it&amp;#39;s presented as a review by MVP Adam Mechanic, a regular visitor to SQLServerCentral.com. If you&amp;#39;re looking for replication help, check out this book.

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/bookreviewofaguidetosqlserver2000transactionalands/1835/</guid><pubDate>2005/04/13</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/bookreviewofaguidetosqlserver2000transactionalands/1835/</link></item><item><title>Book Review: SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit</title><description>This 1100 page book offers something for everyone. Using Blobs, Analysis Services, Replication, High Availability. 38 Chapters plus ebook and tools on the CD. Should you get it? Read our review of this book to find out!

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/bookreviewsqlserver2000resourcekit/343/</guid><pubDate>2002/08/30</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/bookreviewsqlserver2000resourcekit/343/</link></item><item><title>Review of Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code</title><description>It&amp;#39;s not a SQL book and the code examples are in Java, but there is a lot to like about this book. What is refactoring? How would you find it useful? Read the review to find out!
</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/reviewofrefactoringimprovingthedesignofexistingcod/722/</guid><pubDate>2002/07/02</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/reviewofrefactoringimprovingthedesignofexistingcod/722/</link></item><item><title>Review of Debugging the Development Process</title><description>Andy read this book recently and gave it a great review. Even though it&amp;#39;s not a SQL book! Seriously, take a look at the review. It&amp;#39;s a good book that is fun to read.

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/reviewofdebuggingthedevelopmentprocess/612/</guid><pubDate>2002/02/26</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/reviewofdebuggingthedevelopmentprocess/612/</link></item><item><title>Advanced T-SQL for SQL Server 2000</title><description>A new T-SQL Bible that is a must have for SQL Server DBAs. Read a review of this book.



</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/advtsql/472/</guid><pubDate>2002/01/23</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/advtsql/472/</link></item><item><title>70-100 MCSD Architectures Exam Cram</title><description>Should you use this book to prepare for the 70-100 exam? Read the review and find out!
</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/70100mcsdarchitecturesexamcram/562/</guid><pubDate>2001/12/26</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/70100mcsdarchitecturesexamcram/562/</link></item><item><title>Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming</title><description>A review of Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming
</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/beginningsqlserver2000programming/481/</guid><pubDate>2001/10/15</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/beginningsqlserver2000programming/481/</link></item><item><title>Review: Professional SQL Server 2000 XML</title><description>Professional SQL Server 2000 XML - Find out if this book from Wrox is as interesting as it sounds.

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/professionalsqlserver2000xml/413/</guid><pubDate>2001/09/12</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/professionalsqlserver2000xml/413/</link></item><item><title>Book Review:Admin 911: SQL Server 2000</title><description>This is a great administrative reference for anyone using SQL Server 2000.

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/bookreviewadmin911sqlserver2000/377/</guid><pubDate>2001/08/08</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/bookreviewadmin911sqlserver2000/377/</link></item><item><title>Professional SQL Server Programming</title><description>Steve Jones reviews Robert Viera&amp;#39;s Professional SQL Server Programming text.


</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/professionalsqlserverprogramming/347/</guid><pubDate>2001/08/01</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/professionalsqlserverprogramming/347/</link></item><item><title>Review: SQL Server 2000 Database Design</title><description>Is this a book you should read? Spend a few minutes reading the review to find out!

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/reviewsqlserver2000databasedesign/370/</guid><pubDate>2001/07/23</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/reviewsqlserver2000databasedesign/370/</link></item><item><title>Tuning and Sizing Windows 2000</title><description>Steve Jones&amp;#39;s review of a great guide for tuning the Windows 2000 OS.
</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/tuningandsizingwindows2000/339/</guid><pubDate>2001/07/18</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/tuningandsizingwindows2000/339/</link></item><item><title>The Software Conspiracy</title><description>This book discusses some of the issues that exist today in software. A good read for anyone developing software.


</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/softwareconspiracy/274/</guid><pubDate>2001/07/11</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/softwareconspiracy/274/</link></item><item><title>The Guru's Guide to T-SQL</title><description>Steve Jones's review of this classic and reference. A must-have for every SQL Server DBA.
</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/theguru'sguidetot-sql/335/</guid><pubDate>2001/07/04</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/theguru'sguidetot-sql/335/</link></item><item><title>Transact SQL Programming</title><description>Steve Jones reviews of this reference.

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/transactsqlprogramming/338/</guid><pubDate>2001/06/25</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/transactsqlprogramming/338/</link></item><item><title>Secrets and Lies</title><description>An fascinating look at security in the digital world.
</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/secretsandlies/262/</guid><pubDate>2001/06/20</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/secretsandlies/262/</link></item><item><title>Inside SQL Server 2000</title><description>Steve Jones&amp;#39;s review of the updated classic.

</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/insidesqlserver/260/</guid><pubDate>2001/06/13</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/insidesqlserver/260/</link></item><item><title>Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS Review</title><description>Steve Jones reviews the premier DTS reference for SQL Server 2000.




</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/DTS/prodts/261/</guid><pubDate>2001/06/06</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/DTS/prodts/261/</link></item><item><title>SQL Server 2000 Black Book</title><description>A review of the SQL Server 2000 Black Book from the Coriolis Black Book series.
</description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/sqlblackbook/223/</guid><pubDate>2001/05/18</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Book+Reviews/sqlblackbook/223/</link></item></channel></rss>