Top 10 Highly Recommended SQL Server Books

Jayleen Heft

May 30, 2014

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Here are 10 technical SQL Server books you may want to consider for your bookcase. Whether you're responsible for servers running SQL Server 2008, 2012, or 2014, there's a book for you.

  • Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (2014), by Ross Mistry, Stacia Misner

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals (2013), by Kalen Delaney

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals (2012 ), by Itzik Ben-Gan

  • SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning, 3rd Edition (2012), by Grant Fritchey

  • Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting (2012), by Christian Bolton, Justin Langford, Glenn Berry, Gavin Payne, Amit Banerjee, Rob Farley

  • SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes, 3rd Edition (2012), by Jason Brimhall, David Dye, Jonathan Gennick, Andy Roberts, and Wayne Sheffield

  • Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 (2012), by Jason Strate, Ted Krueger

  • SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (2009), by Rod Colledge

  • Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (2008), by Teo Lachev

  • Securing SQL Server 2nd Edition (2012), by Denny Cherry

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