Free eBook: SQL Server Backup and Restore
You can download a free eBook from SQLServerCentral and Red Gate software on the most important task a SQL Server DBA or developer needs to understand.
View ArticleFree ebook: Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA
We spend much of our working life helping solve SQL Server-related performance problems, hands-on, during consulting, or on online forums. We've seen a few weird-and-wonderful issues but, mainly, it’s...
View ArticleWin a Collection of SQL and .NET Books. And a Bookshelf
After winning a number of awards for our software, Red Gate is giving away books to 300 people as a celebration.
View ArticleFree eBook: Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer
This free ebook from Red Gate Software will take you from the fundamentals of Statistics, Cost Estimation, Index Selection, and the Execution Engine, and guide you through the inner workings of the...
View ArticleFree eBook: SQL Server Execution Plans
Every Database Administrator, developer, report writer, and anyone else who writes T-SQL to access SQL Server data, must understand how to read and interpret execution plans. This book leads you right...
View ArticleCommunity-driven free Azure tips eBook
We’re putting together a free eBook of 50 tips for Azure Storage, if you’ve got tips that you’d like to share we’d love to hear from you.
View ArticleTransaction Log Stairway Series available as a book
Red Gate Books has released SQL Server Transaction Log Management, a free eBook on maintaining and troubleshooting the enigmatic transaction log based on the Stairway Series.
View ArticleTribalSQL: 15 New Voices in SQL Server
MidnightDBA and Red Gate have joined together to produce a new book on SQL Server, written by 15 first-time authors. The resulting book, TribalSQL, includes everything you should know about SQL Server...
View ArticleThe Fundamentals of SQL Server Replication by Sebastian Meine
Many of my clients need to make data that lives on one server available on another server. There are many reasons for such a requirement. You might want to speed up cross-server queries by providing a...
View ArticleSQL Server Source Control Basics
Source control can and should play a key role in the database development and deployment process, and this book will show you exactly how to get started.
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SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In this book, Kalen Delaney explains how the new In-Memory OLTP engine works, how it stores and manipulates data, and how, even with all data stored in memory and no locking or latching, it can still...
View ArticleKeeping up to, and down with, Date
It is foolish to insist on reading only up-to-date books on technology. Nothing beats getting the broad perspective.
View ArticleBook Review: Database Reliability Engineering by Campbell & Majors
Brent Ozar explains why DBAs should read this book about the future of database administration at scale.
View ArticleFoundational Material: Microsoft SQL Server Book and Blogs From The Past
Erik Darling dusts off his favorite archival-quality bloggers and books.
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