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Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
(Out of Print)
Pub. April 1999
ISBN 0735605173
Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 in 21 Days
(Out of Print)
Pub. March 1998
ISBN 0672311380
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Are you looking to learn more about SQL Server? This is a great place to start! Meet the Expert - She has been working with SQL Server for over 17 years, starting in the Technical Support department of Sybase Corporation in 1987. |
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Kalen Delaney
is a founder and principal mentor of Solid Quality Learning, a SQL Server training and consulting company committed to providing the highest quality, most advanced SQL Server training and mentoring services in the world. She has been working with SQL Server for over 17 years, starting in the Technical Support department of Sybase Corporation in 1987. In 1991 she moved with her family from the San Francisco Bay area to the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her husband, four children and her new Corgi puppy, a ferry boat ride away from Seattle and the Microsoft Redmond campus.
Kalen speaks at technical conferences around the world, including Microsoft TechEd and SQL Server PASS, and in 2005 will be speaking at numerous Solid Quality Learning University Summits. In addition to writing for Microsoft Press, Kalen writes about SQL Server in SQL Server Magazine and creates advanced SQL Server training material that she uses in her classes on SQL Server Internals and Tuning.
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Kalen's favorite books: |
 Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design by Michael J. Hernandez --
If you don't have a good design, all the database performance tuning in the world won't do you much good.
 The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. --
A very readable description of what makes up a complex software project, explaining why any software is more than the sum of its parts.
 Art of Computer Programming Volumes 1-3 by Donald Knuth --
A true reference work.
 Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques by Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter --
When I need to find out how and why the SQL Server designers did what they did, this is where I go. It's been around for a while, but there's still nothing to compare with it.
 Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 by Itzik Ben-Gan and Thomas Moreau --
If you need to know how to perform tasks in the SQL language that you thought just weren't possible, check here before you give up.
Mastering Windows 2000 Server (Out Of Print) by Mark Minasi --
When I need to find out how to do something in Windows, Mark will tell me.
 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference by Steve Adrien DeLuca, et al --
This book really explains the tools that monitor all the details of SQL Server running on Windows, including all the nitty-gritty details of Performance Monitor.
Cuckoo's Egg: tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll --
Mainly I like this book because it's an example of how technology can be fascinating reading for almost anybody.
 Happiness Is a Choice by Barry Neil Kaufman --
I don't just read tech books.
Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 (Out of Print) by David A. Solomon and Mark E. Russinovich --
This book explains the inner workings of Windows in the same way that I like to explain the inner workings of SQL Server, and it explains at the level I need to know.
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