I and Paolo Pialorsi have been interviewed at TechEd by Ken Rosen. We talked about our experience as book authors of Programming LINQ. If you are interested in writing a book, or if you simply want to see our faces and hear our italian accent, you can watch the video available in both low resolution and high resolution. Enjoy!

With some help from two esteemed colleagues, Greg Low and Mark Whitehorn, the Introducing SQL Server 2008 book is now content complete. Sure, there is still some tech and copy editing that needs to be done, but the core writing is complete. The book, based on the Feburary CTP6 release, will be available free from Microsoft and covers a slew ...

SQL performance tuning is probably one of those things you can do to really make a HUGE difference in performance. Let’s put this in perspective: take a typical application, if you can improve the performance by 100% then you really made a huge improvement. You can improve a SQL query by 1000% with 2 lines of code (sometimes all you have to do is ...

Note from my manager: ''All, It looks like we have some book money left for this year that we can spend. Please select 2 books each that you have wanted and send the titles to me and I’ll get them on the list.'' Very nice, I picked the following two books below. The Art of SQL SQL Server 2005 Practical Troubleshooting: The Database Engine What ...

I am a big fan of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 The Storage Engine so when I saw that yet another book got published in this series I just had to check it out. Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization is very well written gets to the point and give you the answers that you need. I decided to contact Kalen to see if she ...

Here is an update of what I accomplished in the first 20 days   Read the book lifehacker Read the book Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Read the book  Extending SSIS 2005 with Script Read 1 chapter of Learning Python, Second Edition Played around with the July CTP of SQL Server 2008   So in the first 20 days ...

Here is an update of what I accomplished in the first 10 days   Read the book lifehacker Read the book Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Read 126 pages of Extending SSIS 2005 with Script Installed PostgreSQL, Python, Eclipse and Django.   Now you may ask yourself how I could have read all these things in 10 days. ...

Who can recommend a good SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services book?   I know SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services but did not work with SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services yet. As a matter of fact I haven’t touched Analysis Services in 2 years. I don’t need a book which explains what a start or join schema is, I know what a slowly changing ...