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17 July 2008 01:54

Comments on Dissecting SQL Server Execution Plans by Grant Fitchey

Long time SSC participant Grant Fitchey has published a great book on reading/understanding execution plans. I finally had the chance to read it last week (on vacation) and was pleased with it, he did a great job covering the concepts and I noted that...
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11 July 2008 01:27

Vacation Reading - Boyd & Mullane

I did quite a bit of reading during a recent week off including two biographies. One was Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War and it was a long/interesting read. Boyd was quite the character, developing the OODA loop as well as being the...
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01 May 2008 01:23

Review of Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability

I grabbed Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability by Allan Hirt recently to add to the library and I've been pleased with it even though it's expensive as books go, close to $60. Really good coverage of everything you need to know to figure our...
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15 April 2008 01:00

Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 2

It's always good to find a book or two on a subject when you want to be good at something. I grabbed two from Amazon, the first being The Elements of Mentoring ($15) and I've found it to be a very good book. It's actually written by a mentor...
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02 April 2008 01:52

If You Like Books - Look at LibraryThing

I've been following their blog for a while at LibraryThing and so far it looks interesting. The basic premise is that you add the books you own/like (up to 200 for free, $10 a year or $25/life after that) - essentially very book centric bookmarking...
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21 February 2008 01:22

New Book from Celko - Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL

I've been meaning to post this, Joe's latest book Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL is available on Amazon for about $24. Here's an excerpt of the excerpt: "Joe Celko has looked deep into...
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06 February 2008 01:29

Free LINQ Book from MSPress

Introducing Linq is now available as a free download and along with chapters from Introducing ASP.Net Ajax and Introducing Silverlight. Hard to beat free. In particular LINQ is probably of interest to your developers and DBA's will want to have a...
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30 January 2008 01:11

The Long Tail

Another book I read recently, The Long Tail by Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine goes into detail talking about some of the changes in retail brought on my the internet with the main premise (in my words) being that companies like Amazon, Netflix, and...
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18 January 2008 09:22

Free Ebook Chapter(Book) - Introducing SQL Server 2008

Saw it mentioned in the recent MSPress newsletter, Peter DeBetta is writing Introducing SQL Server 2008 and right now Chapter 1 on the Declaritive Management Framework (essentially Group Policy for SQL Server) is a free download. If you sign up you'll...
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05 November 2007 14:10

Technical Debt/Steve McConnell is the man!

Steve is the guy who wrote Code Complete (get rev 2 if you buy) which I consider to be required reading if you want to be a professional developer and occasionally he'll have some pretty interesting stuff on his blog. This time it was about technical...
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05 July 2007 16:58

70-444 Exam Prep Book

I just got my author copies of the Sybex book for exam 70-444 and have to say the book looks good! I wrote the SSIS chapter and it is amazing what a couple good editors can do to make it really look professional. I've enjoyed the simpler rules and...
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23 May 2007 07:46

Book Reviews

I've got a new article running on SSC today with a few more book reviews: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/2998.asp .
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