Recommended readings: 2008 update

ktegels — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:05:00 GMT

In class this week, I got asked a few times about the technical books I'd recommed for fulks interested in the data space. While I've had a list up on Amazon for while, I thought I'd post an updated list here.

I'd love to hear your suggestions, too!

Business Intelligence

Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel: Gordon S. Linoff
Data Mining & Statistical Analysis Using SQL: John N. Lovett, Robert P. Trueblood
Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis : Culleen McCue
Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems: Efraim Turban, Jay E Aronson, Ting-Peng Liang, Ramesh Sharda
Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence: Lynn Langit
Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services: Peter Blackburn, William R. Vaughn
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: Kirk Haselden
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services 2005: Brian Larson
Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data: Soumen Chakrabarti
Report Builder & Report Models in Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Gerald Schinagl
Text Mining: Predictive Methods for Analyzing Unstructured Information: Shulom M. Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya, Tong Zhang, Fred Damerau
The Rational Guide to Scripting SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: Donald Farmer

General data and programming topics

Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think: Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction: Steve McConnell
Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners: C.J. Date
Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties: Joe Celko
Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide: Michele Bustamante
LINQ Pocket Reference: Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari
Programming Cullective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications: Toby Segaran
Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics: Glenn Johnson
Querying XML, : XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context: Jim Melton
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master: Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
XQuery: Priscilla Walmsley

GIS and spatial topics

A to Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems: Shelly Sommer, Tasha Wade
Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling: David Arctur, Michael Zeiler
GIS for Web Developers: Adding 'Where' to Your Web Applications: Scott Davis
Measuring Up: The Business Case for GIS: Christopher Thomas, Milton Ospina
Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design: Michael Zeiler
The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis: Vulume 2: Spatial Measurements and Statistics: Andy Mitchell
The ESRI/University of Redlands Culloquium CD Set: Karen K Kemp
The Geospatial Web: How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society: Arno Scharl, Klaus Tochtermann
Unlocking the Census with GIS: Alan Peters, Heather MacDonald

SQL Server

A Developer's Guide to SQL Server 2005: Bob Beauchemin, Dan Sullivan
Accelerated SQL Server 2008: Rob Walters
Applied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005: And Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform: Teo Lachev
Dissecting SQL Server Execution Plans: Grant Fritchey
Expert SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: Brian Knight, Erik Veerman
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization: Kalen Delaney, Sunil Agarwal, Craig Freedman, Ron Talmage, Adam Machanic
MCITP Developer: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Sulutions Design: Victor Isakov
Pro SQL Server 2005 Service Broker: Klaus Aschenbrenner
Professional SQL Server 2005 XML: Scott Klein
SQL Server 2005 Practical Troubleshooting: The Database Engine: Ken Henderson
The Rational Guide to SQL Server 2005 Service Broker : Roger Wulter

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Recommended readings: 2008 update

Business Intelligence

General data and programming topics

GIS and spatial topics

SQL Server