It’s alive! It’s alive!
That’s enough from Colin Clive.
It’ll be out for the Summit. SQL Server Standard lives again! Although, not quite in the same shape as it used to be. But hey, stitching stuff together out of dead tissue is messy work.
I want to thank our first author who had to suffer through quite a few growing pains and help us blaze a trail through the woods, Thomas LaRock. I want to thank my boss at PASS for all the support especially the time I started whining, Andy Warren. And there’s this other guy, who has helped just a ton in this effort in every way, and lead the technical edit team, Brad McGehee. We have a photo credit to Pat Write for the front. Craig Ellis has done a yeoman’s labor putting together all the layout & art stuff, especially when you consider he had me making artistic suggestions (gave my wife a laugh anyway). The technical editors on the first article are K. Brian Kelley, Jose Santiago Oyervides and Tim Mitchell. Finally I have to thank Kathy Blomstrom for all her hard work editing and laying out the final.
To all you guys, thanks for working so hard through this process. I have bad news though. We have to get another one together in just a couple of weeks.
I’m probably stealing a little bit of Andy’s thunder by announcing it here. I don’t think he’ll be too mad at me.
I hope the community appreciates all the hard work these people put into this. Each of them did a great job. If you see them at the PASS Summit, be sure to say thanks.
Congrats to all that had a part in getting this out. I’m sure it was a lot of work, but it’s always nice to see something that come to fruition.
Congratulations and thanks for getting it done, I appreciate the effort you’ve put into it and nothing wrong with talking about it here. I’m looking forward to seeing that PDF!
For those of you reading this, we’ve decided to double what we pay Grant, and I’ll be throwing in a cup of whatever coffee he wants while we’re at the Summit!