A number of months ago Oracle Ace Kellyn Pot’Vin (T|B) had talked with me about being an Author to an upcoming book about SQL Server Best Practices. After a number of discussions with the editors, 
and a lot of deliberation on my part on what I should write about I joined the team of authors. I got to tell you that this is a great team of Authors and I honored to be even mentioned in the same discussions as them. Here is the list that I pulled from the Apress site. Bradley Ball , TJay Belt , Glenn Berry , Jes Borland , Carlos Bossy , Louis Davidson , Ben DeBow , Grant Fritchey , Jonathan Gardner , Jeremy Lowell , Jesper Johansen , Wendy Pastrick , Kellyn Pot’vin , Mladen Prajdić , Herve Roggero , Gail Shaw , Jason Strate and then there is me… Chris Shaw.
One of the biggest challenges for me to committing to work on a book is the amount of time that it takes to complete the task. There are a number of authors who can write complete books, and continue with other commitments and still do a great job. For me, I think it is difficult to make sure that the information I am trying to pass along is clear and easy to read. I end up re-writing so many parts of it that I think it takes me much longer than other authors. This is why a book like this is so attractive to me; I get the opportunity to work on one chapter that is focused on something I am passionate about without the stress of many more chapters after that to complete is not looming over me.
So I am proud to announce that the Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices book is complete. If you have pre-ordered it I image it will not be long before you get your copy sent over to you. The book is described as:
“Expert SQL Server Practices 2012 Edition is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators and developers who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.”
I hope you like it, and I look forward to hearing your comments about it. If you haven’t ordered it yet, I think you can do so on Amazon here. If you like this style of book with many Authors working on topics they are passionate about, I also worked on the SQL Server MVP Deep Dive Vol. 2 book. All the profits of the Deep Dives book are donated to Operation Smile.
Pre-ordered and waiting on it’s arrival! Congratulations again!
I was able to get the Deep Dive book as well and it has a lot of great info on it. A lot of great authors on both of these collaborative efforts.
Awesome you guys take the time to put together pieces like this.
Thanks, Comments like that is what makes working on these so worth it.