November 2008 - Posts

• Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008

  I've been really busy lately. A big component of that time has been my involvement with the new Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008 program. I was privileged to be chosen to teach six days of the fifteen day program in the recent alpha rotation. Read More... Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 3:43 PM by Greg Low | 8 Comments

• SQL Server 2008 Systems Views Poster

  Another project that Ron Talmage and several other of my Solid Quality Mentors colleagues have been working on is a new system views poster for SQL Server 2008. I'm told that it's going to go out with the December issue of SQL Server Magazine . I got Read More... Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 3:31 PM by Greg Low | 3 Comments

• SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference

  I've been working on the SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference with a number of my colleagues from Solid Quality Mentors (Ron Talmage, Aaron Johal, Steven Abraham, Allan Hirt, Herbert Albert, Antonio Soto, Joe Webb, Craig Utley, Dejan Sarka, Larry Read More... Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 3:23 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• Outstanding new book: T-SQL Fundamentals (Itzik Ben-Gan)

  I'm so glad to see that my Solid Quality Mentors colleague Itzik Ben-Gan has his T-SQL Fundamentals book now available. This book has been needed for some time. It's been updated for SQL Server 2008 and I'm sure it'll fast become one of the standard SQL Read More... Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 3:41 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments