Ms SQL Server 2005 Administrator’s Companion (ISBN-13: 978-0-7356-2198-5)

It’s a long book starting out with the usual what’s new in sql server 2005 and movingb to the system design and arhitecure of what makes a good fast system running sql server. The book is 1136 pages long, I’m only 248 pages so far. I’m at Part 3 (MS SQL Server Administration) Chapter 10 Creating Databases and Database SnapShots, although I’ve aleady read Chapter 27 on Log Shipping and database mirroring. Since I’m concerned with the programming against SQL Server I’m probably going to jump around in this one to keep up with the how to make databases, set up users and such since the actual business intelligence items will be from my code displaying to my users. But you never know I may skim that section and find something that really make my life easier or give me ideas on my coding.