Books

My recommendations

• Dan Tow: SQL Tuning, 2003, O'Reilly
• Cary Millsap: Oracle Performance, 2003, O'Reilly
• Jeremy D. Zawodny: High Performance MySQL, 2004, O'Reilly
• Alex Davies, Harrison Fisk: MySQL Clustering, 2006, MySQL Press
• Jon Stephens, Mike Kruckenberg, Roland Bouman, Stewart Smith, Solomon Chang: MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA Certification Study Guide, 2007, MySQL Press
• John Allspaw: The Art of Capacity Planning, 2008, O'Reilly

I recently bought

Not yet read and thus not recommended.

• Robert D. Schneider: MySQL Performance Optimization, 2005, MySQL Press
• Paul DuBois: MySQL Administrator's Guide, 2006, MySQL Press
• Joe Celko: Joe Celko's SQL Programming Style, Elsevier
• Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross: The Data Warehouse Toolkit. The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modelling
• Gian-Paolo Musumeci, Mike Loukides: System Performance Tuning, O'Reilly
• Jonathan Lewis: Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals, 2006, Apress
• Lex de Haan, Toon Koppelaars: Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals, 2007, Apress
• Joe Celko: Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, 2004, Elsevier
• Sasha Pachev: Understanding MySQL Internals, 2007, O'Reilly
• many others ... :-)

My wishlist

• Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy Zawodny, Arjen Lentz, Derek Balling: High Performance MySQL, 2008, O'Reilly
• Ralph Kimball, Joe Caserta: The Data Warehouse Staging Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleaning, Conforming, and Delivering Data
• Phillip G. Ezolt: Optimizing Linux Performance
• Sandra K. Johnson, Gerrit Huizenga, Badari Pulavarty: Linux Server Performance Tuning
• Peter Gulutzan, Trudy Pelzer: SQL Performance Tuning
• Gunter Saake, Andreas Heuer: Datenbanken: Implementierungstechniken
• Andreas Heuer, Gunter Saake: Datenbanken Konzepte und Sprachen
• Stéphane Faroult, Peter Robson: The Art of SQL
• C. J. Date: Logic and Databases: The Roots of Relational Theory