I have started a new article series at Simple Talk. It's all about the transition from procedural programming to declarative programming.

http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/

 

First article is found here
http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/the-road-to-professional-database-development-set-based-thinking/

 

And it is already viewed 5500 times.

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com:8081/peterl/archive/2012/02/24/new-article-series.aspx