Recommendation for SQL Server book
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My company will be moving from SQL Server 7 to 2005 in the near future. There are only 3 of us in IT, none of whom are DBAs :) Is there a good book out there that will help us set up 2005 effectively, otherwise we might have to get £££contractor in. Maybe the internet is as good a place as any but I am wary of being misled by "experts" and trying to decipher half-baked articles with no proper examples. Thanks in advance.
I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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My company will be moving from SQL Server 7 to 2005 in the near future. There are only 3 of us in IT, none of whom are DBAs :) Is there a good book out there that will help us set up 2005 effectively, otherwise we might have to get £££contractor in. Maybe the internet is as good a place as any but I am wary of being misled by "experts" and trying to decipher half-baked articles with no proper examples. Thanks in advance.
I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
I must admit that I like the books from the Microsoft Press series. The "administrator's companion" is a good help to start setting up databases, so you can see whether you can avoid contractors.
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