Two years ago 59 SQL Server MVP's came together and helped make one of the best book on SQL Server out there. Each chapter was written by an MVP about a part of SQL Server they loved working with.
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After about 6 months of work, the new book I've coauthored with Grant Fritchey (Blog|Twitter), Phil Factor (Blog|Twitter) and Alex Kuznetsov (Blog|Twitter) is out. They're all smart folks I talk to online and this book is packed with good ideas backed by years of experience.
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This book authored by Kalen Delaney whose Inside SQL Server books are compulsory reading for every DBA
hits the nail on the head with this one too.
The book goes into hardcore details of how the storage engine itself works.
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This book is a sequel to T-SQL Querying. And it stands completly side by side it.
I can only recommend that you get it. The amount of new stuff to learn is amazing.
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This is an AWSOME book!
Written by Itzik Ben-Gan and coauthored by Lubor Kolar and Dejan Sarka it's definitly worth it's money.
It starts with the chapter on logical query processing in which it explaines the basics of the full select statement and the order of processing it.
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Well in my knowledge brush up for 70-431 Exam I used this book backed up by BOL.
If you have previous SQL Server experience this book and BOL is all you really need to pass the Exam.
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