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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 he had the answers to many of the common questions...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 07-16-2008
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 first to put into writing the techniques and physics...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 07-10-2008
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 your HA strategy, with lots of emphasis on clustering...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-30-2008
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/protege pair! The book breaks mentoring down into...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-14-2008
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, then you get to leverage the combined libraries...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-01-2008
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 the code of novice SQL programmers and found a consistent...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 02-20-2008
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 basic understanding of what it does when used when...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 02-05-2008
This Just In...

I was as surprised as anyone to watch the Giants beat the Pats on Sunday. I take that back, apparently I wasn't as surprised as these folks: I doubt I lost as much money as they probably did. Hell, I'd buy a copy of this book just to have it as a collector's item. Do you think they have any...

Posted to Pseudo-Random (Weblog) by Mike C on 02-05-2008
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 Itunes sell fewer copies of a far larger number of...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 01-29-2008
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 get the entire e-book when it's completed...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 01-18-2008

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