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Microsoft Press has released the second draft preview of “Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012″, by Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner, in pdf format. Six chapters of the book are available to download for free.

Free eBook from IBM. Read “Understanding Big Data” to understand the characteristics of Big Data, learn about data at rest analytics, learn about data in motion analytics, get a quick Hadoop primer, learn about IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and IBM InfoSphere Streams.

Red Gate software is offering the eBook version of “Oracle Essentials 4th Edition: Oracle Database 11g”, published by O’Reilly Media, free of charge for a limited period. Download this 408 page book in pdf format.

Another free ebook from Simple Talk Publishing High Performance SQL Server series, “Complete Showplan Operators” by Fabiano Amorim can be downloaded in PDF and ePub formats.

Red Gate Software is offering another free eBook. This time “Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA”, written by Jonathan Kehayias and Ted Krueger can be downloaded in pdf format along with a free trial version of SQL Monitor software.

You can download a complete pdf copy of “Mining of Massive Datasets” by Anand Rajaraman and Jeffrey David Ullman from their website. Written by two authorities in database and Web technologies, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners alike. It teaches algorithms that have been used in practice to solve key problems in data mining and includes exercises suitable for students from the advanced undergraduate level and beyond.

Free eBook “SQL Server Hardware Choices Made Easy” from Red Gate software. Relational databases place heavy demands on their underlying hardware. Many databases are mission-critical resources for multiple applications, where performance bottlenecks are immediately noticeable and often very costly to the business. Despite this, many database administrators are not very knowledgeable about server hardware.

Free eBook “Getting started with InfoSphere Data Architect” from IBM. InfoSphere Data Architect (IDA), formerly known as Rational Data Architect, is the premier tool from IBM for database design and more!. Learn how to use it in conjunction with DB2 Express-C, the no-charge edition of DB2.

Read “HBase: The Definitive Guide” by Lars George for free from O’Reilly Media’s Open Feedback Publishing System. If your organization is looking for a storage solution to accommodate a virtually endless amount of data, this book will show you how Apache HBase can fulfill your needs.

Free ebook “Oracle Performance Tuning with Solid State Disk” by Oracle expert Mike Ault, with contributions from Jamon Bowen, Joe Bromley, and Matt Key, all experts on solid state disk (SSD) technology. The increasing popularity of solid state disks is challenging DBAs to adapt their database performance tuning methodologies in order to optimize application performance and return on investment.