There are several resources devoted to SQL Server. Here are Microsoft's:
If you don't already have it installed, download Books Online right now. See
Article #2229 for more information (Books Online was updated long after it was initially released).
If you don't own the
SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit, you can read the chapters online. The CD is more than worth the cover price.
Microsoft SQL Server Community Related Communities for SQL Server SQL Server newsgroups (use NNTP, not HTML — please see
Etiquette #5007.)
Microsoft's SQL Server Home SQL Server 2000 Operations Guide Some of the
TechNet Chat Transcripts might make interesting reading.
FAQ articles in the
Knowledge Base SQL Server resource sites from MVPs:
Aaron Bertrand (SQL Server 2005)
Darren Green Dinesh.T.K Erland Sommarskog Fernando Guerrero Greg Low Itzik Ben-Gan Jasper Smith Kimberly Tripp Michael Hotek Narayana Vyas Kondreddi Nigel Rivett Steve Kass Tibor Karaszi Umachandar Jayachandran Vinodk Other resource / reference sites:
SQL Server FAQ SQL Server Magazine SQL Server Professional SQLDev.Net SQLXML.org Database Journal (formerly swynk.com/sql)
SearchSQLServer SQL Server Examples SQL Server Central SQL Server Worldwide Users Group Professional Association for SQL Server SQLTeam.com SQL Server Q & A SQL-Server-Performance.com SQL-Tutorial.net And these are the titles on my bookshelf.
Inside SQL Server 2000 (Delaney)
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architect... (Henderson)
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Pr... (Henderson)
The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL (Henderson)
Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 200... (Ben-Gan / Moreau)
Pro SQL Server 2005 (Rizzo, Machanic, ...)
Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server 2000 Re... (Blackburn, Vaughn)
SQL 2000 XML Distilled (Williams, Likes, et. al.)
Pro SQL Server 2000 Database Design (Davidson)
SQL Server: Common Problems, Tested Solu... (Pike)
SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit (MS Press)
SQL Server 2000 Reference Library (Iseminger)
SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Techn... (MS Press)
A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Deve... (Beauchemin, Berglund, Sullivan)
Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 wi... (Dobson)
SQL Programming Style (Celko)
Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smartie... (Celko)
SQL for Smarties (Celko)
SQL in a Nutshell (Kline/Kline/Hunt)
SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization... (England)
SQL Server 2000 Optimization Guide (Fields)
Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and S... (Vaughn)
Writing Stored Procedures for Microsoft ... (Shepker)
A Guide to SQL Server Transactional and ... (Cotter)