No one said that publishing was going to be easy

Writing interesting content is not as easy as you think, even for those of us who write a lot of content

To steal or not to steal, that is the question

What should you use for the right message – Twitter? Message board entry? Blog post? Write a whitepaper? Author a book?

So many of you may have noticed I haven’t said much about the new high availability stuff coming in Denali that was announced back at PASS in November. Well, besides being busy, I have known about it and seen it for quite awhile through various NDA sessions, and I’m just now finding the time to play with it using CTP1 of Denali. Because the new availability feature (which has been… Read More

So I’m finally finishing up the scripts and such for the book. Yes, they are very, very late. But you guys will benefit from that because you’ll get a few things which wouldn’t have been in there had I released ‘em when Pro SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering was released. Anyway, I was creating the final versions of the checklists and configuration worksheets using Office 2010. I started them in… Read More

PASS was a whirlwind week between the three main conference days and the two MS Insider days on either end. I don’t ever remember being so busy at PASS, yet for the first time in … well … I don’t know how long I actually attended a handful of sessions. I highly recommend the HA customer panel led by two good friends on SQLCAT Prem Mehra and Sanjay Mishra. Besides… Read More

I checked over at Amazon and Pro SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering is now shipping. The PDF should have been available for a few weeks, but if you ordered the print copy, it’s truly now available and coming your way. I haven’t received a physical copy of the book yet. I’m looking forward to seeing it.

Got the word today that the book was sent to be printed a few days ago. Woo hoo!

All primary writing for the new Pro SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering book is now complete. I still need to finish the editing process, but that's infinitely easier than writing! So it looks like the book will come out on time in June. Maybe now I'll get some sleep … oh wait, TechEd is next week. So much for that idea!