Query: SQL Server Book Recommendations

[Rudi_Wiesmayr]

Hi folks!

There are Books Online. There are the SAP Notes and Documents created by people like Jürgen Thomas (THANKS!!!) ...

There are many sources of information in the WWW - blogs, documents, discussons ...

And there are many BOOKS. Too many ...

I ask you to recommend your favourite books about SQL Server.
Your recommendations should help all of us to buy those books which are helpful ...

Kind regards, Rudi

[former_member211576]

Hi Rudolf,

  Do you focus only on SQL server, not including Windows Server Failover Cluster and SAP? If yes, I  recommend you to ask in MSDN -> Database Engine.

Because this is a SAP on SQL forum, I will talk a little bit about WSFC and SAP. Here is my MATERIAL list. Hope this helps.

PS: These are very useful for troubleshooting and performance optimization. Regarding to reviews, there are so many people wrote in Amazon in great detail. I will skip it.

1. Search "Failover Cluster" from MS TechEd 2008~2014

2. Search "SQL Server Performance/Query/execution plan/AlwaysOn" from MS TechEd 2008~2014

3. A book "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 administrator’s companion"

3.5 Troushooting Sql Server ( Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA )

4. A material from SAP course "BC 490: ABAP Performance & Tuning"

5. CD 262: Tune Your Custom ABAP Code.

6. Performance Do’s and Don’ts – ABAP: http://service.sap.com/performance

7. SAP performance optimization guide: http://www.amazon.com/SAP-Performance-Optimization-Guide-Edition/dp/1592293689

8. Juergen best practices: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-1006

9. SAP DBA Cockpit and Microsoft SQL Server | SCN

10. DBA Cockpit SQL scripts: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saponsqlserver/archive/2007/06/05/sap-dbacockpit-and-some-related-sql-script...

11. Search "Enhancment Package/Solution Manager" from SAP TechEd

[former_member184473]

Hello Rudi,

Which topics are you interested?

Regards,

Eduardo Rezende

[Rudi_Wiesmayr]

Ola Eduardo!

MY personal areas of interest: Performance, query tuning and Availability/HA/DR/B&R.

Thinking for the community: Books that give insight into the SAP relevant mechanisms of SQLServer. This again leads to performance topics and "understanding the query processing" ...

The goal of my query: Creating an annotated list of "books from outside SAP" with reviews from a SAPlings perspective, so that members of our community have a guide what books are worth reading and/or buying.

Kind regards, Rudi

[Rudi_Wiesmayr]

And here is the - almost empty - list:

SQL Server Bookshelf - Reviews and Recommendations