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Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM) by Kalen Delaney ISBN: 0-7356-0998-5 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.27 (67 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best books about database internals
Comment: First of all, let me strongly disagree with low rates that some other reviewers gave to this book. I don't think it's correct to lower the rating just because the contents didn't change much since "Inside SQL Server 7". SQL Server 2000 is very much like SQL Server 7.0 (adding XML is the only major difference). It's a companion to the product, so it should be just a next iteration of "Inside SQL Server" series.
Then it seems that some reviewers probably expected to find how to program SQL Server using ADO, XML, ODBC etc, and instead only found a description of internals. While I agree that the books should have covered XML implementation better, I'd remind that the title of the book is "INSIDE SQL Server"! And I was really pleased with how much of SQL Server internals were exposed to the general public.
Perhaps I liked the book so much because I'm working now on a propriatary database implementation, and for me it was really useful to learn how SQL Server is implemented. But any serious database developer should understand how query execution is planned, how records are locked, and what is a performance and storage cost of certain operations. And all these topics are presented in a best possible way.
Rating: 5
Summary: Indispensable
Comment: As someone who already has alot of experience with the product, it's very nice indeed to have a book that covers the internals as well as this book does.
I guess it's important to understand that this is not a book for newcomers to SQL Server, nor is it a "how-to" book. This book is useful when you want to know what happens to your database when you perform an INSERT on a table with a clustered key. It tells you how the TEXT fields are stored, which allows a DBA to make an intelligent decision about when and if to use such a field. I obviously could go on and on. As far as I can tell, this is the *only* book out there that will give you that kind of information.
Since this isn't a sequel or trilogy, I was expecting that there would be some redundancy between the 7.0 and 2000 version of the book simply because that same redundancy exists in the real product!
If you are already an experienced DBA and are looking for an understanding of the internals so as to make better tuning decisions, then by all means,get this book. If you're new to SQL Server and you stiil don't know the difference between WHERE and HAVING, then you may be disappointed in this book, because it's not going to teach you how to use the EM and QA.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good book
Comment: We recently moved from Informix to Sql 2K and found this book very useful. Thanks to this and Henderson's book we were able to make the migration in 6 months. We actually unplugged the Informix server yesterday.
This book teaches how Sql works inside. The product docs don't even tell half the story, so a book like this can help fill in the gaps.
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Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference by Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia ISBN: 0735612706 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 03 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: MCAD/MCSE/MCDBA Self-Paced Training Kit: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation, Exam 70-229, Second Edition by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735619603 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 14 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Microsoft ADO.NET Step by Step by Rebecca M. Riordan ISBN: 0735612366 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook by Ken England ISBN: 1555582419 Publisher: Digital Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
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Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit (With CD-ROM) by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735612668 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 28 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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