SQL Server Resources for Server Admins

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Hi All

More and more products that we use are using SQL server (system center products, WSUS etc etc). I don't particularly have any experience with SQL server - to me it's something that gets installed and left to run ... I don't have any idea of what maintenance needs to be done, any confiuration that should be done after it's installed (eg diabling certian items etc).

Does anybody have any recommended reading/online tutorials/websites/white papers etc that would give me a good grounding in SQL server, difference between the various editions or anything else that an IT admin should know about SQL Server ?

Thanks in advance

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Kind of a shotgun blast but:

http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/Catching-up-on-resources-the-Accidental-DBA-workshops!.aspx

If you have a little budget, this might be good:

http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321602773

Jeff
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