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Free Ebook Downloads

August 27, 2012 by Andy Hayes 5 Comments

free ebooks downloadEveryone likes free ebooks right?

Well Eric Ligman, Director for Partner Experience at Microsoft and has very kindly provided a large number of free ebooks to download.

Amongst the 80+ titles, there are several Microsoft SQL ebooks as well as titles on Sharepoint, Windows Phone, Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Dynamics, virtualization and many more.

Here is the SQL ebooks download list available on the posts:

  1. Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012
  2. Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
  3. SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Analysis Services – Tabular Modeling
  4. Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
  5. Transact-SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) Reference
  6. QuickStart: Learn DAX Basics in 30 Minutes
  7. SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Analysis Services – Data Mining
  8. Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Performance and Operations Guide
  9. Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) Reference
  10. SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide
  11. Backup and Restore of SQL Server Databases
  12. SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Analysis Services – Multidimensional Modeling
  13. Master Data Services Capacity Guidelines
  14. SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit

There are two download links, here is the first link and the second is here

Thank you Eric!

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About Andy Hayes

Andy Hayes is a DBA working with SQL Server since version 7.0. He has a wonderful wife and two beautiful children. He loves database technology, playing cricket, and blogging. He is passionate about sharing his experiences as a DBA and learning more to further his understanding and knowledge. You can follow me on Twitter, check out my Facebook page or follow me on Google+

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  1. James Aponte says

    August 28, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    Please excuse my English I have learned in a book! This is a very useful post, there are many useful book on SQL. Shared knowledge is the knowledge that for a long time, and energy, and I was told that. Let us everyone be a poweful gods. Thank you.

    Reply
    • Andy Hayes says

      August 28, 2012 at 8:46 pm

      Hi James

      Thanks for your comment. I am glad you found this post useful.

      All the best

      Andy

      Reply
  2. Michal Pawlikowski says

    September 3, 2012 at 11:19 am

    This is really helpful, thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  3. Mike George says

    June 3, 2013 at 4:37 pm

    Thanks for sharing.
    Here’s yet a technet site with even more SQL ebooks
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11608.e-book-gallery-for-microsoft-technologies.aspx

    Reply
    • Andy Hayes says

      June 3, 2013 at 8:54 pm

      Thanks Mike, this is a great resource.

      Reply

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