Programming Books

The Best SQL Server Books

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   The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML

   by Ken Henderson

   SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques you need to transform yourself into an expert SQL programmer. Now, in this fully updated second edition, SQL mastermind Joe Celko keeps you moving forward, using his entertaining, conversational style to teach you the best solutions to old and new challen...
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   1 Ranking

   The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL

   by Ken Henderson
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   SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedures Handbook

   by Tony Bain, Louis Davidson, Robin Dewson, Chuck Hawkins

   If you want to write better stored procedures, this is the book for you.

   This book will tackle real-world problems faced by developers when working with stored procedures, showing how to solve these problems, avoid the common pitfalls and work around them, to produce faster, more robust stored procedures.