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Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm (SQL Server 2005 Public Beta Edition) Review by NetDeveloper
Shame on Sams for Publishing an ANONYMOUS author
What is the world coming to if a major publisher is allowing a technical text with an ANONYMOUS author? Do they/he/she have a rash or a criminal record they need to hide? Or have been competely booed for a prior work? Of all the pen names they had to choose one with an "Inc" in it. Are they afraid of being sued for putting out wrong information?
Amazon is not helping much either by carrying this title and not probing further for the identity of the authors.
I HAVE NOT READ the book but this pen-author practice is real hokey and enough reason for me to chastise it even if the information inside it is useful. Maybe that would communicate to them to disclose themselves on their site or in this site. I will then update my rating accordingly.
This is not a forum, but some response to Jeff Tokarsky is in order. I own a library of over 2000 technical titles in several areas of expertise and not one is published anonymously. I could not even screen against this practice because I had never even seen it before. Maybe in Harlequin romance novels but not in technical texts.
I ran through a database of 14,000 titles and did not find one other anonymous title. I beg Jeff Tokarsky to point one to me. Even then this could hardly be called "A lot".
This is not a white paper or a web article. Most web articles do have an author, except when intended as ORIGINAL documentation like BOL or MSDN by the owner of the technology. Outside those, the statistics of no anonymous resources approach those of printed texts.
A white paper usually is put out by the owners of a technology or the government itself if regarding a policy. See http://www.stelzner.com/copy-HowTo-whitepapers.php
This is not the case here.
Anyway, the previous reviewer is correct about one thing, it is slim pickings as titles go that are already out this early in the SQL Server 2005 product cycle.