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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://sqlblogcasts.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Christian Bolton&amp;#39;s SQL Server Blog : SQL Books</title><link>http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/archive/tags/SQL+Books/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: SQL Books</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)</generator><item><title>New book close to release and a return to blogging</title><link>http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/archive/2009/11/13/new-book-close-to-release-and-a-return-to-blogging.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:18:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">fa8c4e8e-46a3-4193-8264-2c1a9cb3475d:12518</guid><dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=12518</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/commentapi.aspx?PostID=12518</wfw:comment><comments>http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/archive/2009/11/13/new-book-close-to-release-and-a-return-to-blogging.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been pretty rubbish at blogging over the last 9 months or so but I&amp;#39;ve got a good excuse; I’ve been hard at work putting together a new book with a few other SQL Server bods and I’m very pleased to say that we are just about done &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;The book is called Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We designed it in two parts: Part 1 deals with internals information on SQL Server, Windows, and Hardware to enable you to work effectively with the troubleshooting tools covered in Part 2 which include SQLDiag, PerfStats, SQLNexus and the Management Data Warehouse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;The book will be published under the Wrox brand owned by Wiley and it’ll be one of the first releases in their jazzy new format.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We’ve just finalized the cover which you can see below and its available for pre-order on Amazon now with an expected release date of around 22&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; December (if everything stays on track).&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;Now that’s out the way I’m looking forward to getting back to blogging.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We’ve got some amazing stuff in the book but there’s still a ton of stuff I just didn’t have time to include which gives me lots of ideas for blog posts! Watch this space...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;Order from amazon.com: &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/yerhl7t"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;http://tinyurl.com/yerhl7t&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;, &amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;Christian Bolton&amp;nbsp; - &lt;em&gt;MCA: SQL Server 2005, MCM: SQL Server 2005,&amp;nbsp;MVP&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Technical Director&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://coeo.com" href="http://coeo.com/"&gt;&lt;font color="#4c6d7e"&gt;http://coeo.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - SQL Server Consulting &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;Managed Services&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://sqlblogcasts.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=12518" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/archive/tags/SQL+Server+2008/default.aspx">SQL Server 2008</category><category domain="http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/archive/tags/Tools/default.aspx">Tools</category><category domain="http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/archive/tags/SQL+Books/default.aspx">SQL Books</category><category domain="http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/archive/tags/Internals/default.aspx">Internals</category><category domain="http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian/archive/tags/Troubleshooting/default.aspx">Troubleshooting</category></item></channel></rss>