Top University Courses for Free

I just received an email from a friend with links to top university courses for free. I checked them out and they are indeed free and what’s great about them is that they can contain classes for the entire semester and not just one class. They also get updated quite frequently so you can follow along with the professor. My favorite is the Berkley Webcasts which seems to have the most courses and you can subscribe to RSS feeds for each course.

Stanford free Courses
http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx

Yale free Courses
http://oyc.yale.edu/

MIT free Courses
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm

UC Berkeley YouTube Video Courses:
http://youtube.com/ucberkeley

UC Berkeley Webcasts:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu

Books to Read: an update

Update on books to read:
1. T-SQL 2000 – Itzik Ben Gan
Re-read 3 chapters. Downloaded the SQL scripts in the book from the publisher’s website. I did not know that they existed. That will make a good reference.

3. Fast Track to MDX – Mosha
Almost done. Need to finish the last chapter.

8. SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Step by Step – Reed
Good read. Read most of the book and found it very useful in building cubes in 2005.

I will concentrate on finishing the above books and move on to the other ones.