﻿<?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 books</title><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/</link><description>Content tagged books posted on SQLServerCentral.com</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>360</ttl><managingEditor>sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)</managingEditor><item><title>Exchange 2010 - A Practical Approach</title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/68825/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/19</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/68825/</link></item><item><title>The Best of SQLServerCentral, Vol.7</title><description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/68736/</guid><pubDate>2009/11/12</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/68736/</link></item><item><title>Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans</title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/68380/</guid><pubDate>2009/10/05</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/68380/</link></item><item><title>Protecting SQL Server Data</title><description><![CDATA[This book holds the key to &quot;encryption without fear&quot;. 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.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/68066/</guid><pubDate>2009/09/03</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/68066/</link></item><item><title>SQL Server Tacklebox</title><description><![CDATA[Inside the SQL Server Tacklebox you'll find day-to-day tools 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.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/67536/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/14</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/67536/</link></item><item><title>How to Become an Exceptional DBA, 2nd Edition</title><description><![CDATA[Brad McGehee provides a &quot;career guide&quot; for DBAs. It is intended both to help prospective DBAs find a &quot;way in&quot; to the profession, and to advise existing DBAs on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.<!-- NEW! Object recovery for SQL Server -->
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]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/67441/</guid><pubDate>2009/07/06</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/67441/</link></item><item><title>SQL Server Stumpers, Vol.5</title><description><![CDATA[Whether 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 and increase your knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/67141/</guid><pubDate>2009/06/03</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/67141/</link></item><item><title>The Data Access Handbook - Sample Chapter</title><description><![CDATA[We have a sample chapter available from The Data Access Handbook, written by experts at DataDirect Technologies.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/66925/</guid><pubDate>2009/05/15</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/66925/</link></item><item><title>Confessions of an IT Manager, 2nd Edition - Book</title><description><![CDATA[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 &quot;seen it all&quot; and what's more he's prepared to tell what he knows. The second edition of Phil's &quot;Confessions of an IT Manager&quot; contains Phil's full repertoire of tales of institutional mayhem and software projects gone awry.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/66860/</guid><pubDate>2009/05/07</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/66860/</link></item><item><title>Best of SQLServerCentral, Volumes 1 - 4</title><description><![CDATA[Best of SQLServerCentral vols 1-4 pulls together some of the best contributions to SQLServerCentral.com between 2002 &amp; 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/66630/</guid><pubDate>2009/04/16</pubDate><link>http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/books/66630/</link></item><item><title>Do DBAs Still Read Technical Books?</title><description><![CDATA[Despite my misgivings about the fall from favor of technology books, I was heartened to hear from the developers at Red Gate that the classic books on the art of programming are still important to them. What are the equivalent books for DBAs?<!-- NEW product just released! -->
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  <td><strong>New product just released! </strong><br />Recover individual database objects from native SQL Server<br> backups and restore them to any database. <a href="http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_OLR_Native/offers/try_olr_native.htm?utm_source=ssc&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=OlrNative_launch_v2_200909&utm_campaign=sqlolrnative">Download a free trial </a><br>of Red Gate’s new SQL Object Level Recovery Native™.<img src="/Images/spacer.gif?d=ad_olr1"/></td>
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  <td><strong>New product just released! </strong><br />Recover individual database objects from native SQL Server<br> backups and restore them to any database. <a href="http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_OLR_Native/offers/try_olr_native.htm?utm_source=ssc&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=OlrNative_launch_v2_200909&utm_campaign=sqlolrnative">Download a free trial </a><br>of Red Gate’s new SQL Object Level Recovery Native™.<img src="/Images/spacer.gif?d=ad_olr1"/></td>
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