Geek City: SQL Server 2008 Internals is Orderable!

Kalen Delaney — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:08:00 GMT

Less than a week ago, I told you about making some major progress on my new book, and that it would "soon" be pre-orderable.

It turns out it already was orderable, as my helpful readers let me know. So here is the link to Amazon, for all of you who want to get the book as soon as it hits the streets!

I just searched through my old blog posts, and realized I've never talked about the new name! The "Inside" name was getting a bit diluted, with all kinds of other Inside books on the market, including some "Inside SQL Server" books from other authors through other publishers. Since I wanted the title to be really clear about what the book was covering, we decided to change the name.

This name change is not without precedent. Some of you may recall that there used to be a book called "Inside Windows" which morphed into "Windows Internals".

I have a terrific group of co-authors, including two people who are (or were very recently) on the SQL Server development team at Microsoft. My co-authors are: Paul Randal, Kimberly Tripp, Conor Cunningham, and Adam Machanic (who wrote the Tracing Chapter for Inside SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization)

Thanks!

~Kalen

Inside SQL Server... the next book

Kalen Delaney — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:28:00 GMT

The last volume of Inside SQL Server 2005 (Query Tuning and Optimization) is now in the hands of MS Press. This is the first time I have worked on a Inside book as a group project, and for some strange reason I thought that meant that I could get the book done more quickly. We were desperately trying to get it done in time to be available by the PASS conference, but as the conference is in September this year, instead of the usual November, it looks like we won't make it.

I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my co-authors:

Sunil Agarwal (Chapter 1: A Performance Troubleshooting Methodology)

Adam Machanic (Chapter 2: Tracing and Profiling)

Craig Freedman (Chapter 3: Query Execution and Chapter 4: Troubleshooting Query Performance)

Ron Talmage (Chapter 6: Concurrency Problems)

(I co-wrote Chapter 4, and wrote Chapter 5: Plan Caching and Recompilation)

And of course, I also wish to thank all of my readers, without whom there would be no reason to write!

~Kalen

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