 | A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Bob Beauchemin
Buy new: $38.89 / Used from: $2.07 "The Book" on SQL Server 2005
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 | Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SQL Server Series) by Kirk Haselden
Buy new: $37.79 / Used from: $24.16 If I could only have on book on SSIS, this is the one I would pick.
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 | Report Builder & Report Models in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 by Gerald Schinagl
Buy new: $15.99 Pretty much the only single and dedicated resource on this topic. Very useful if are going deep in the ad-hoc reporting stack for SQL Server 2005.
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 | The Rational Guide to SQL Server 2005 Service Broker (Rational Guides) (Rational Guides) by Roger Wolter
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $15.17 A great no-nonsense tutorial on service broker. Go from zero to building Service Broker apps in an afternoon.
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 | SQL Server 2005 Practical Troubleshooting: The Database Engine (SQL Server Series)
Buy new: $37.79 / Used from: $42.21 Understanding Plan Guides
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 | The Rational Guide to Extending SSIS 2005 with Script (Rational Guides) (Rational Guides) by Donald Farmer
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $15.69 Excellent tutorial to using the script tasks and components. Gotta love the price.
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 | Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $22.81 LOVE IT!
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 | Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence by Lynn Langit
Buy new: $40.45 / Used from: $22.94 Very good primer
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 | Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (Solid Quality Learning) by Itzik Ben-Gan
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $24.88 This series is pretty good. A lot of information to consume.
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 | Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $8.45 LOVE IT!
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 | Inside Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005: The Storage Engine (Solid Quality Learning) by Kalen Delaney
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $11.43 Another in the core series. As usual, Kalen is very through.
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 | Inside Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization by Kalen Delaney
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $27.45 Probably a book that every serious SQL 2005-2008 developer should have around.
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 | Expert SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Programmer to Programmer) by Brian Knight
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $13.99 Excellent book for Data Warehouse builders
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 | XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer) by Michael Kay
Buy new: $37.79 / Used from: $33.39 A must have. Period.
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 | XQuery by Priscilla Walmsley
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $13.00 If you need to go deep and fast on XQuery, here's the book you need.
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 | Querying XML, : XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by Jim Melton
Buy new: $44.53 / Used from: $20.00 If you are looking for a universal treatment of SQL and XML living together, here's the book you need.
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 | Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data by Soumen Chakrabarti
Buy new: $59.96 / Used from: $44.71 one of the best books in this topic space
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 | Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis by Colleen McCue
Buy new: $46.75 / Used from: $62.89 Enjoying this one on my Kindle.
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 | A to Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $17.88 pretty book thats pretty helpful.
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 | Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel by Gordon S. Linoff
Buy new: $39.61 / Used from: $35.44 Very good book but will have radical changes for Katmai
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