Still Alive and Well

With apologies to Johnny Winter. Long time, no postings. You might have guessed why I disappeared, but Dan and I just finished and handed in the sequel (pun intended) to the “First Look” book, entitled “A Developer’s Guide to SQL Server 2005”. How I spent my winter “vacation”… Whew.


We’ve got everything updated to RTM, LOTS of new/updated material on every topic (especially on security) and a new chapter on SMO. Those SQL Server 2005 folks were busy since beta2. Now we’ll see how long copyedits, production, etc, takes. Should be on shelves by late Q1-early Q2. We’ll be posting a sample chapter shortly.


Now to figure out what to do with the rest of this year. Started to look at some different ways to “stretch out”. Took a quick glance at the new JDBC driver last week. More content coming soon…feel free to send suggestions.

4 thoughts on “Still Alive and Well”

  3. Hi Shawn,

    I was waiting for this question. I once wrote email to WROX press to request an upgrade for Mike Blaszczak excellent C++ book. I’d bought it and in a month the next version of C++ came out. They actually wrote me a nice letter explaining printing costs and such, and offered me a $5 discount on an updated copy.

    A/W acted confused when I brought this up, and started to explain printing costs and such… 😉 You might have better luck. But we decided instead to attempt to put enough new and interesting stuff to make it worth it. You can tell us how well we did.

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