I’ve known Joe for a number of years and have a lot of respect for his experience and knowledge around relational database design and the SQL language.  Read more...

Read a sample chapter from this new book about C# and LINQ from Murach.  Read more...

I read, a lot. I’ve been a prolific reader all my adult life. I use to split my reading between tech books and my regular relaxing reading but since I got into audio books several years ago I just pretty much read tech books now. Some times I’ll listen..  Read more...

I've been reading What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith over the past couple months, and found it to be a useful book. My one sentence summary is that it teaches without the ability to be introspective and let go of your pride,...  Read more...

Longtime author and SQL Server guru David Poole takes a look at a classic book about Data Warehousing.  Read more...

I received a review copy of Murach's SQL Server 2008 For Developers a couple months back and just finished up looking through it. In general I've always liked the style of the Murach books; short lessons that flow about as logically as you can do it when it often seems like you need to know it all to get anything done!  Read more...

I've grown up reading Tom Clancy and probably most of you have at least seen Red October, so this book caught my eye when browsing used books for a recent trip. It's a fairly human look at what's involved in sailing on a Trident missile submarine...  Read more...

I saw this book ( It's Your Ship ) in a Barnes and Noble and the title and cover attracted me. So I picked it up and read the back, thought it was interesting, and later grabbed it for the Kindle.  Read more...

A look at this book from James Wightman and Apress on the ETL subsystem in SQL Server.  Read more...

A short review of this book by Ben Forta giving you the basics of T-SQL  Read more...

A short review of the WROX red covered book that looks at Integration Services for the DBA.  Read more...

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.   Read more...

Apress has been generous enough to provide us with a sample chapter from their book on SQL Server 2005 High Availability by Alan Hirt.  Read more...

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.   Read more...

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.   Read more...

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.   Read more...

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.   Read more...

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.   Read more...

Impressions of this new book from Brian Kelley.  Read more...

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's presented as a review by MVP Adam Mechanic, a regular visitor to SQLServerCentral.com. If you're looking for replication help, check out this book.   Read more...

Longtime author and SQL Server guru David Poole takes a look at a classic book about Data Warehousing.  Read more...

A short review of the WROX red covered book that looks at Integration Services for the DBA.  Read more...

A look at this book from James Wightman and Apress on the ETL subsystem in SQL Server.  Read more...