For the past two years, I have had the honor and privilege or authoring SSIS Design Patterns alongside Jessica Moss, Michelle Ufford, Tim Mitchell, and Matt Masson. Publication of the book – like many projects of this scope – has been delayed. The current publication date is 27 Aug 2012 and I have high confidence in this date. I take ...

I wrote about ''Too Many Columns'' last September, and along with changes in SQL Server 2008 that allow lots of columns, there is also the ability to create more than the old maximum of 249 nonclustered indexes on a table. I knew this fact, but somehow I overlooked it when updating the chapter on table structures in my new book. My omission also ...

Less than an hour ago, I sent my last chapter of my next book ''SQL Server 2008 Internals'' to my editor! Note that I said ''my'' last chapter, not ''the'' next chapter, as two of my co-authors still need to complete their chapters. But I've finished my chapters! Now this is still more to do, in addition to the waiting for the other two chapters ...