SQL Server Books

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Books I recommend:

SQL 2005:

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying
by Itzik Ben-Gan , Lubor Kollar and Dejan Sarka

Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
by William R. Stanek

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming
by Dejan Sarka, Roger Wolter, Itzik Ben-Gan

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine
by Kalen Delaney

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization
by S. Agarwal, C. Freedman, A. Machanic, R. Talmage Kalen Delaney

Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Companion
by Garcia, Patel, Misner, Isakov

SQL 2008:

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals
by Itzik Ben-Gan

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals
by Paul S. Randal, Kimberly L. Tripp, Conor Cunningham, Adam Machanic, and Ben Nevarez Kalen Delaney

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
by William R. Stanek

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying
by Lubor Kollar, Dejan Sarka, Steve Kass, Itzik Ben-Gan