My Top 5 series of books has proved very popular. The first post titled Top 5 books for Enterprise Architecture was the blogs most popular post in August. My post last week about my Top 5 SQL Server Books for the DBA has also been well received. This week’s post is the Top 5 Books for the Database Developer, again these are the books on my physical and virtual bookshelf.
TSQL Querying – By Itzik Ben-Gan Et al
TSQL Fundamentals – By Itzik Ben-Gan
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions – By Itzik Ben-Gan
SQL Server 2012 TSQL Recipes – By Jason Brimhall and Wayne Sheffield
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals – Karen Delaney and Bob Beauchemin
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You might see an pattern developing with the author of some of these books Itzik’s books are very good you can’t help but learn a lot from them. The other two are really useful too
Update 13th September 2016
Thanks to Steve Hindmarsh for his comments. Steve recommends the following books. I have read the Antipatterns book a while ago…although i don’t still have a copy. It is a good book.
SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming by Bill Karwin
Steve also recommended the following
Defensive Database Programming – By Alex Kuznetsov.
I have read this book too. You can get a printed copy from amazon by following the link. You can however get the ebook in pdf format free from sqlservercentral.com its well worth a read
Maybe not so well known as the classic books listd above – but I would highly recommend 'SQL Antipatterns' by Bill Karwin, and 'Defensive Database Programming with SQLL Server' by Alex Kuznetsov. Both highly recommended…
Thanks for the comment Steve, I have read both of this and I think both are worth a mention so I have updated the post to include them.
Thanks Gethyn. I think it is great to see my book on this list.
oh and BTW, it would be good to list Wayne Sheffield as the co-author of the recipes book.
Thanks
Thanks Jason I have added Wayne as an author too. Should I add anyone else?