Just do keep in mind that there was beer involved so the language might require headsets is there’s a manager or child around.

Denny

This means that either Amazon either ordered just enough copies to cover the pre-orders,  or they ordered a heck of a lot of copies and the SQL Server community bought them like crazy.  Personally I’m hoping for the second reason and not the first.  But when I look at the sales graph that Amazon shows me, it might actually be the second.

If you look at the graph to the right (I’m a DBA, we love data) you can see how the book has been ranked on Amazon’s best seller list over the last month.  What I really like is that yesterday, on my birthday, the book breached the 100,000 mark for just the second time.  The first time was back on October 22, 2010 which the book was ranked #99,971 overall.  Well the rank yesterday was #49,111.  And unlike every prior spike, this wasn’t a one day spike.  There were actually two days of positive climbing in the rankings.  Does this tell me that the book has been selling like crazy?  No, well sort of no.  The book rankings are based on daily sales, and as you get closer to being #1, it takes more and more sales to move up the rankings.

There’s no specific sales data available for the book yet that I can see, that all comes from BookScan (a company that gathers sales info from all the major retailers) so it’ll take a week or two for data to show up, but at least I can see some general info about the book so I’ve got a general idea.

Now I get to move into another party of the book writing phase that I like to call “Please tell me you liked it”.  Now I have to sit around and wait for the revues to be posted about the book.  Personally I’m pretty proud of it, I should be proud of it I wrote the thing after all, but I hope that you the SQL Server community at large like it, and more importantly that you (or someone you know) find it useful.  If just one (or maybe two) people are able to better protect their SQL Server data because of the book I’m going to call it a success.

I think I’ve rambled enough for the day.  I’ve got to get back to my MCM study.

Denny

While I was up at the SQL 2008 R2 Tweet Up my friends Sean and Jen from MidnightDBA (@MidnightDBA) and Jorge Segarra (@SQLChicken) and I got together to talk a bit about plagiarism in general and this recent incident.  The talk was recorded and they published it over the weekend as part of the DBAs @ Midnight series of videos.  The video was broken down into 4 sections when they uploaded it (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4).

Hopefully you’ll have as much fun watching the video as we had making it.  During the videos we are pretty critical of some people within the community (if you’ve read the blog posts I link to above you can probably guess who).

Oh, and some of the language isn’t kid/boss safe.  Consider yourself warned.

Denny

On Tuesday April 6th, at 6pm I’ll be speaking to the LA C# User Group.  The meeting is held at the Manhattan Beach Library at 1320 Highland Ave in Manhattan Beach, CA 90266.  The group asks for $7 (or $5 is you RSVP by 3pm).

On Wednesday April 7th,, at 6pm I’ll be speaking to the SoCalDotNet User Group.  The meeting is held at Partners Consulting at 7101 Village Dr, Buena Park, CA. The group asks for $7 (or $5 is you RSVP by 3pm).

At both user group meetings I’ll be giving the same presentation “Back To Basics; Getting Back To The Basics of SQL Server“.

Also on Wednesday I’ll be attending and answering questions at the SSWUG vConference.  My sessions are from 9:30a-10:30a, 10:30a-11:30a and 12:00p-1:00p (all times are pacific).  If you haven’t registered yet, don’t forget to use my discount code DCSPVC10 to save $30.00.

Now on the 6th and 7th I’ll be work at Starbucks in the afternoons so that I don’t have to sit in traffic for ever.  On the 6th I’ll be at the Starbucks at 233 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA.  On the 7th I’ll be at the Starbucks at 7711 Beach Blvd, Buena Park, CA.  I’ll probably get there about 2pm or so on each day if anyone wants to come and hang out before the meeting.  Keep an eye on my Twitter stream (@mrdenny) as I’ll be posting where I’m at as I get there.

On Thursday I’ll be up in Redmond, WA at a Tweet Up with Donald Farmer on the Microsoft Campus.  Sadly its a private event so I can’t invite everyone to show up and hang out.

Sometime on Friday (or on Thursday after the Tweet Up) my friends Jorge Segarra (@SQLChicken), Sean and Jen McCown (@MidnightDBA) and I will be recording a pod cast.  The topic of our DBAs@Midnight recording will be plagiarism; a topic which there has been a lot of discussion about recently on Twitter.  Should be a good time recording this.  Once I know when Sean and Jen get it posted I’ll be sure to send out the link.

Hopefully I don’t have to get a whole lot of my normal work done this week.  If I do, I’m not sure when I’m actually going to be able to.

Denny

Denny