OT: reference book(s)

[GCC Consulting]

> 
> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', GCC Consulting done said:
> > Any recommendations for good reference books for managing 
> MS SQL 2000?
> 
> "Learn to Shoot Your Business in the Foot in 21 Days"
> "Patching (and Patching, and Patching) MS SQL for Fun and Profit"
> "Good Data in Bad Places"
> "Helping Take Down the Internet's Root Name Servers - A Guide"
> 
> Sorry, I don't have ISBN numbers.  :)
> 
> > Installed it here using Small Business Server 2003 and want 
> to "play" with it.
> 
> I see no problem with that.  Be a cold day in hell before I'd 
> sign off on putting it in production though.  :)  If I had to 
> pay for one, I'd just go for Oracle.  Speaking of which, 
> Oracle has just announced that they're moving to a very 
> MS-like scheduled patch system, furthering the trend of making 
> people wait for much-needed updates.

Remember this comes part of my MS action Pal subscription so it really isn't
costing me anything, in software costs.

One never knows what a new client may have in the way of systems installed.  So,
I need to educate myself.

I might take a look at mySQL also.  But for now it's this for now

Richard