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IE4: Immersion Event on Security, PowerShell, and Development Support

Bellevue, WA, US: August 27-31, 2012

Overview

This 5-day class is designed to give a solid grounding for database administrators in topics related to development support, security, optimization of procedural code, and scripting with PowerShell. Although the course covers a wealth of developer topics, the focus is on supporting features in production rather than in-depth coverage of how to use the feature. The addition of a day on optimizing procedural code and material on PowerShell and provide coverage of areas that have more recently become requirements for production DBAs but are not traditionally covered in "DBA" classes. Security is an area that is critical in today's environment and all DBAs should be able to secure a SQL Server installation.

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Event details:

Instructor: Bob Beauchemin.

Class will run from 8:30am-5:45pm Monday through Thursday and 8:30am-5:00pm on Friday.

Detailed agenda:

7:45am Coffee/tea
8:30am Class begins

9:45am 15-minute break
11:15am 15 minute break

12:30pm Lunch break
1:30pm Class resumes

2:45pm 15-minute break with dessert
4:15pm 15-minute break

5:45pm Class ends (5:00pm on Friday)

For those of you planning air travel and departure times after the class completion on Friday: we do end at 5:00pm on Friday and we use every minute of that schedule, and often we run a few minutes over. For most deliveries we end between 5:00pm and 5:15pm. This depends on questions and we often push out the 5:45pm endings earlier in the week if things are running behind but I can honestly say that we’ve never ended early. Our general recommendation is for you to purchase tickets with departures no earlier than 8:00pm. However, each city/location may be a little different. Consider contacting the hotel (or the hotel’s website) for more specific insight into travel times and specific travel options to the airport.

Evening events:

Monday evening: “Meet-n-Greet” in the bar. We’ll open a tab and pick up the first round so we can get to know each other better and wind down from day 1.
Tuesday evening: Guest presenter (tbd) will present from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Wednesday evening: Guest presenter (tbd) will present from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Thursday evening: Guest presenter (tbd) will present from 6:30pm-9:00pm

You will receive printed materials for all of the lecture content + demo scripts and a hands-on lab DVD that you can use to work through self-paced exercises covering much of what we talk about. Additionally, after the event ends, we will provide all classroom demo content on our website as a zip of demo scripts.
Also included in your registration fee are coffee, breakfast, snacks and lunch. On the registration page, please let us know if you have special dietary requirements. Click here to see an example menu.

Location details:

The Immersion Event will be held in the Courtyard Seattle Bellevue/Downtown.
This hotel is very close to downtown and is in an area packed with restaurants, shopping, and entertainment, including the famous Tap House Grill and Bellevue Square!
The hotel has a special rate of $163/night for the August events from 8/3/2012 to 9/2/2012: for a room with a single king bed, use this link; and for a room with two queen beds, use this link.

Transportation from/to SeaTac Airport:

Shuttle Express: "share ride (multi-person vans)" exclusive service and town car service: details here. Price is ~$39 each way.
Taxi: these are available on the 3rd floor of the parking garage at SeaTac. This is the building just outside the terminal after baggage claim. Take the escalators up to the walkway and then an elevator down to the 3rd floor. Estimated price is ~$50 each way.
Bus: There's a main bus station in Bellevue only 2 blocks from the hotel. Price is ~$5 each way and there's a direct express bus every 30 mins to/from the airport. Details can be found here.
Rental car: A rental car really isn’t necessary unless you want to venture out pre/post the event. However, if you do there’s a Hertz rental car location in Bellevue very close to the Marriott. For more transportation details see this link from the Marriott site. Please note that hotel guests are charged $10 per day for overnight parking. This hotel does not offer valet parking.

Pricing details:

Full price for the Immersion Event is $3,495.
Early-bird rate is $2,995 for registrations received before midnight PST Friday July 27th, 2011
For discount information (prior attendees, and groups of five or more), please contact kimberly@SQLskills.com.

Cancellation policy:

Cancellations prior to 27th June, 2012 (PST): fully-refunded minus $100 administration fee and any applicable credit-card processing charges.
Cancellations from 27th June, 2012 to 26th July, 2012 inclusive (PST): 50% refund of registration price.
Cancellations from 27th July, 2012 to 26th August, 2012 inclusive (PST): no refund.

Registration details: Click HERE to go to our registration page.

For more information, please contact kimberly@SQLskills.com.