Books on Disk Subsystem

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  July 20, 2012 at 7:05 am

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  Hi folks,

  Can you please suggest me a worthy book on disk subsystem? I am intermediate dba, having knowledge of basic of storage.

  I would like a book which can cover intermediate level of storage concepts, recommendation on oltp/olap applications, bench marking related stuff, best practices etc.

  Thank you.

• Lowell

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  July 20, 2012 at 7:11 am

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  for best practices , this is a really good reference:

  Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA

  by Jonathan Kehayias and Ted Krueger[/url]

  Simple-talk also has a collection of books, some of them in a free pdf version as well:

  http://www.simple-talk.com/books/

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• Grant Fritchey

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  July 20, 2012 at 7:48 am

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  I don't know of a book just on the disk sub-system, but the disk sections of Kalen Delaney's book, SQL Server Internals, is absolutely a must-read. Also Chris Bolton's book, SQL Server 2008 Internals & Troubleshooting, is pretty good, but not as in-depth as Kalen's.

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