Useful Links for Microsoft SQL Server

Alexander Chigrik offers some useful links for Microsoft SQL Server.

Here you can find the great amount of useful literature about Microsoft SQL Server (available online).
http://www.itknowledge.com/reference/dir.databases.html
http://gshulkin.hypermart.net/books/DatabaseBook.html

Microsoft SQL Server site
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/

Microsoft seminars
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/1033/Index/BrowseTitle.htm

Microsoft Personal Support Page for SQL Server
http://support.microsoft.com/support/SQL

MSDN Developer Center for SQL Server
http://msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserver/

Microsoft TechNet
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sql/

Microsoft TerraServer
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/default.asp

Many interesting articles available online, SQL scripts, FAQ, etc.
http://www.swynk.com

SQL Server Magazine (many interesting articles available online) http://www.sqlmag.com

Pinnacle Publishing (many articles available online, job forums, etc.)
http://www.pinpub.com

Articles, tips, books, user groups
http://www.sqlservercentral.com

WorldWide SQL Server User's Group
http://www.sswug.org

SQL Server News
http://www.sqlwire.com

Michael R. Hotek's site contains technical articles, T-SQL scripts, collection of SQL Server books and product reviews
http://www.mssqlserver.com

Code samples, downloads
http://www.dbmaint.com

Downloads, FAQ, discussions
http://www.sqlsecurity.com/

There are FAQs
http://www.mssqlserver.com/faq
http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?DepartmentID=800
http://www.swynk.com/faq/sql/sqlserverfaq.asp
http://www.sql-server.co.uk

Transaction Processing Performance Council
http://www.tpc.org

experts-exchange (ask a question about SQL Server, and many experts will provide an answer)
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Computers/Databases/SQL

Site about SQL Server performance and optimization
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/

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