“Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O’Reilly Radar” by O’Reilly Radar Team. You can download it in multiple formats free of charge from O’Reilly Shop. …
Planning for Big Data
“Planning for Big Data: A CIO’s Handbook to the Changing Data Landscape”, written by O’Reilly Radar’s experts on big data and published by O’Reilly Media, can be downloaded for free in multiple formats. …
The Little Redis Book
“The Little Redis Book” is a free ebook by Karl Seguin on Redis which is an open-source, networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability. …
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 – Complete Book
Microsoft Press has released the final and complete version of “Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012”, by Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner, in pdf format. All ten chapters of the book are available to download for free. …
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012
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. …
Understanding Big Data
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. …
Complete Showplan Operators
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. …
Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA
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. …
Mining of Massive Datasets
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. …
SQL Server Hardware Choices Made Easy
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. …