My first e-book is out! Mastering VS 2008 Team System Database Edition, Vol 1: Creating and Deploying Database Projects is available at Solid Quality Press. Volume 1 of the Mastering Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition series focuses on creating and deploying database projects. The goal of the manuscript is to provide ...

More Better  Last week I read and blogged about Better by Dr. Atul Gawande. In Part III of the book, Dr. Gawande focuses on Ingenuity with three chapters entitled The Score, The Bell Curve, and For Performance. There are lots of good takeaways for software development in these chapters. Full Disclosure  One stood out ...

A month or so back I was perusing MSDN Blogs and followed a link to the Dreaming In Code website.   I bought it and finished reading the book on my way home from the MVP Summit last week. I recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn more about large software projects. The book offers a look behind the scenes at the design and ...

http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/archive/2008/04/01/mvp-insider-q-a-with-wes-mcdonald.aspx I couldn't imagine a better book for an MVP to read, eh?

I know this book has been out for a little while now, but I didn't get it until now. This one I've been looking forward to for a long time. A quick look in the book is very promising (as expected). The full name of the book, btw, is ''Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Query Tuning and Optimization'' from MS press. The title says it all, I guess. ...

My latest (and only) book has been published, the publisher is O'Reilly. The URL is http://www.oreillymaker.com/ Let me know what you think.

I noticed that Joe Celko has a new book coming out soon: Thinking In Sets. I decided to send Joe an email to see if he would be willing to answer some questions I had about the book and SQL in general. To my surprise Joe was more than willing to accommodate my request. The question-and-answer session with Joe that follows was conducted via email. ...

I'm kicking off the next round of the SQL Server Bible series for Wiley. For the past two versions I used my own custom sample databases and skipped the MSFT sample databases (even though I feel that ALFKI's a friend and I'd love to shop there someday.) I'm also wrapping up a contract where I helped design and develop very heavy transaction, ...

Last night on PBS Jeff Bezos was talking about his new Kindle device on the Charley Rose show. When asked if he felt more emotion about Kindle than Amazon.com, Jeff replied with an enthusiastic yes. To paraphrase, “Books are technology and every technology evolves. The book has been about the same since Gutenberg in the 1430’s, but Kindle ...

Three new illegal eBook download sites were reported today alone. I have a Google alert set to my book and I usually receive 1 or 2 links a week with free illegal downloads of my book. Today there were three. Some sites even list the number of downloads. I know for a fact that my book has been stolen thousands of times. I report every link to ...