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Announcing AtlantaMDF Reviews

Just a quick post to tout a recent sister site that I’ve started (with the help of several other AtlantaMDF members): AtlantaMDF Reviews.  Our goal is to provide a forum of book and tool reviews that would be of interest to our local PASS user group.
The site has just started, with only 2 brief reviews [...]

May 26, 2009   Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Book Reviews, Education, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web  No Comments

SQL Server 2006 DBA Street Smarts – Joseph L. Jorden

Welcome to my first book review!  As part of the process of arranging for swag for SQLSaturday, I’ve encountered a number of publishers that have agreed to donate books to our event in exchange for book reviews.  Obviously, they’d like favorable reviews, but I don’t feel obligated to hold back any legitimate criticisms that I [...]

February 12, 2009   Posted in: Book Reviews, Certification  No Comments

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  • SharePoint 2007 Developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog 2009-11-24
    SharePoint 2007 developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog is an essential guide to anyone who wishes to become proficient in building complex SharePoint applications. This book starts off assuming that the reader is a complete beginner to BDC, and explains in detail what it is. Soon afterwards, the reader is taught what can be done with it and how.The book […]
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  • The Art of Unit Testing 2009-11-08
    As a Database Architect, I often work with Object-Oriented Programmers, but thankfully don’t often have to code in other languages other than SQL.  However, it is useful to understand the methods and basic frameworks by which my team members develop; hence, I decided to review Roy Osherove’s The Art of Unit Testing (Manning Press, 2009).  Although many of th […]
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  • SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action 2009-10-16
    Rod Colledge’s book SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action is a great asset for most SQL Server DBA’s; it covers a variety of issues in a simple-to-understand format. Let me preface this post by saying that while I am a DBA, I’ve been doing mostly development work for the last few years. However, armed with this book, I felt like I could easily dive back i […]
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