SQL Server websites and books

Microsoft SQL Server home page
SqlMag
Transact-SQL
MSDN/ SQL Server - Developer centre
Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices
Microsoft MapPoint - Free mapping add on for SQL Server

Microsoft books online - T-SQL Reference: SQL 2000 | SQL 2005 | SQL 2008

SQL Server 2005 Murach's SQL Server 2005 for Developers by Bryan Syverson, Joel Murach
Optimize query performance, use views and stored procedures, manage multiple databases.

Kalen Delaney book Kalen Delaney MVP
Practical, hands-on guidance for SQL Server with numerous code samples, table examples, practical advice, and best practices.
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine by Kalen Delaney MVP
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization by Kalen Delaney MVP
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Internals by Kalen Delaney MVP

T-SQL book Beginning Transact-SQL With SQL Server 2005 by Paul Turley et al
Optimize query performance, use views and stored procedures, manage multiple databases.

SQL Cookbook SQL Cookbook by Anthony Molinaro
Each recipe demonstrates how to accomplish a given task. Perfect for quick example code to 'make it do the right thing'.

Downloads and utilities

SQL 2005 Express Edition: 32 bit (35 MB) or 64 bit (55MB)

SQL Server Management Studio Express 32 Bit (43 MB) or 64 bit (44 MB)
Use this to manage the SQL Server Express Database Engine.
Before you install SQL Server Management Studio Express, you must install MSXML 6.0

Query Express - A free Query Analyzer look-alike

Microsoft Log Parser 2.2 - Tool to run SQL queries against a variety of log files, export to SQL table or CSV.
Online SQL formatter - dpriver.com

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