Inside the SQL server query optimizer

If you love learning about the internal workings of SQL Server, then you will love this book. This isn't one of those "learn query plans in 24 hours" tutorial books.

I totally agree that the author is great with SQL Server and specifically SQL Server Optimizer, however the book does not seem to offer a lot of practical knowledge. Most of the time for me it was like: yeah, I get it, but I still can't do anything about it.

Firstly, two thumbs up for the "to the point" content of the book.Even though it took a while for me to read this book, or rather I should say 'comprehend' it, the book felt not too long and not too short, I realized the content is just adequate/right to a more than a beginner in SQL Server, but I just wanted to experiment in my test environment in addition to what was in the book, as the end result today I have 11 queries optimized to save my customers total of 4 hours plus of wasted CPU time!