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   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   vaib (vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com) writes:   
   > Yes I found the first book very useful. Thanks a lot. Any other such   
   > resources?   
      
   Gosh! You've read it already. That was quick. :-)   
      
   Michael Coles has a book "T-SQL Programmer's Guide" which also containts   
   exercises. I have not read the book, but it seems to be a general survey   
   of what's in the box.   
      
   Another title is Adam Machanic's "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development". This   
   is not a general book, but takes a deeper look at a specific problems to   
   show what is possible. There is an SQL 2008 version of the book with   
   different authors, but I don't think it holds the same standard.   
      
   I would also like to recommend Alex Kuznetsov "Defensive Database   
   Programming". Not everything he suggests may always be possible to implement   
   in practice, but it can still serve as a en eye-opener.   
      
   If you expect to venture into database design, Louis Davidson's "Pro SQL   
   Server 2008 Database Design and Implementation" can teach you some best   
   practices.   
      
   And again, I definitely recommend to proceed with Itzik's two other books.   
   Not only does he learn you all constructs how you can use, but he also   
   looks at common problems that reoccurs every now and then.   
      
      
   --   
   Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Links for SQL Server Books Online:   
   SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx   
   SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx   
      
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