I purpously gave up writing books a long time ago, understanding super quickly after beginning the era in my career that the activity is a lot of work with very little return. However, writing and writing my first book is what essentially launched my career. So, looking back and tracing my career from then until now, I guess you could say the return wasn’t as small as I thought and was worth it.
I’ve had urges to write new technical books over the years after being approached and offered, but I was able to successfully fend off the urges. However, I had to give in to this latest urge just simply because of what it is. I’ve spent the last 3-4 years focused on this crazy query language called KQL. An actual book, I thought, would give it the official accolades. And it doesn’t hurt that the official tome would come from Microsoft Press.
KQL is an easy language to learn and then also easy to master. My participation in helping drive adoption and acceptance is detailed in the Must Learn KQL series that I created a couple years ago. Though a couple years old now, this series is still driving success as I’ve now (as of the date of this post) delivered over 6,000 completion certificates. You’d think that writing and releasing an official book on KQL would cause Must Learn KQL activity to drop off, but the two complement each other and it has actually driven more people to search, find, and complete the original KQL learning.
How to learn KQL…
Get started learning with Must Learn KQL: https://aka.ms/MustLearnKQL
Then, grab The Definitive Guide to KQL from Microsoft Press to go deep, deeper, deepest into this fantastic query language for the Cloud: https://amzn.to/3xQAC9U
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