Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 1st Edition

For the price $0.00 on Kindle when I "bought it", if your are interested in Microsoft SQL, you can't go past this book. Of course, the biggest cost with any book is actually the time spent reading it...and in this case, it definitely gave me a good intro to the things in SQL 2014 that I should be paying attention to. I should say that I am an infrequent "DBA" across multiple platforms, so am familiar with the technology, but consider myself as an amateur.If you are involved in Big Data, it includes some useful introductory info about the Microsoft approach.So often these kinds of books feel like they are written by marketers, or people who have only just played with a beta - but this book isn't that type. I'd pay good money for this. Recommended.

Very informative, if you use SQL this will help no matter what level.

It's an introduction. Done well.I'm gravely concerned by the lack of thorough and technical resources appearing for the technologies emerging with each new and rapid release, save a handful of white papers that seem to appear at the end of "v current." Even samples and tutorials are not keeping pace.

This book reads like an extended advertisement for Microsoft products. It needs more substance and useful information about SQL Server itself, and less brand marketing and prosletizing for MS.

Good intro to new SQL 2014 features. Kindle verison was free.

Good coverage on the topic.

Glad it was free.

great read