November is conference month for me, and I'll be giving away vouchers for signed copies of my new book, to be mailed to the winners as soon as I receive my author copies. I'll be giving away one each day of my seminars in London and Seattle! The London seminars, for SQLKnowHow, are taking place  the week of November 3-7, so I'll actually ...

  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 ...

I realize it's been a long time since I've posted, but I have been traveling quite a bit, and when not traveling I am writing. I have a firm deadline for the next book,and it means every available hour that I am not teaching will have to be spent writing. I just finished a major milestone, so I thought I would share that here.... I was dreading ...

School started for my two university-attending sons, and one of them was ordering his books on Amazon from the Marketplace, which is resellers and Amazon partners, selling both new and used. He ordered the books before classes started, expecting to receive them by the end of the first week of school. On Thursday of the first week, one of the ...

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.