Category: Books

SQL Tribal Knowledge needs editors!

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date March 21, 2012
Categories In Books, Community, News-ish, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
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A while back I invited the unpublished masses to submit abstracts for a new-author-written SQL book – called Tribal SQL – and the people spoke. The chosen ones are now feverishly writing their first drafts, as the rough deadline for first drafts approaches. This entire proceeding is new, interesting, fun, and – truth to tell – […]

Tech Books: Caveat Emptor

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date January 5, 2011
Categories In Books, NonSQL, Random helpfulness, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
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These days, we have a myriad of ways to judge whether any given product – like, say, a book on SQL Server – is any good. We ask our friends in the industry, check reviews online, or failing anything else, we go for the name we recognize. “Hey, Dan Bookman has a new version of SQL […]

Kick off Banned Book Week with “Beautiful Data”

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 28, 2009
Categories In Books, NonSQL

It’s Banned Book Week! The American Library Association observes Banned Book Week the last week of September to celebrate intellectual freedom. Thanks to author Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) for retweeting, or I wouldn’t have heard of it. I’ve decided to spread the joy with a little celebration of my own. We’re having a book review party […]