Stephen,
At 05:09 PM 5/12/2006, stephen booth wrote:
I was hoping that someone could recommend a book (or maybe a few) that are aimed at letting administrators who have experience of another RDBMS learn SQLServer. I've asked around a number of the SQLServer people at work and the only book any of them really know about is the MCSE study guide but they say it's very dry, dense and oriented towards passing the exam. They indicated that it's purely aimed at people learning SQLServer from scratch, it's in no way aimed at people converting from another RDBMS..
I've Googled but the only book I can find a reference to is "Microsoft Sql Server 2000 Database Administrator's Guidebook". I can, however, only find it listed for sale second hand and the review (there's only one) for it on Amazon.co.uk is less than glowing, it pans the book and the reviewer states that he is an Oracle DBA. Anyone got experience of that book? Is it any good?
I'm funding this myself and Oracle if definately my RDBMS of choice so, whilst I'm OK with buying 2 or more books, I wouldn't be happy spending much more than 100ukp total (including shipping).
Thanks
Stephen
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