|
What's New with SQLskills?
Happy New Year!!
We've announced the first events and classes for 2010 already - checkout the Upcoming Conferences
page for more details. DevTeach in Toronto, SQL Connections in Las Vegas, and a public class in Boston so far. Many more to come - Australia, Ireland, Iceland...
Here's a photo of us with our class in Dublin last September - click through for a PDF press release with cool quotes from the class attendees.
We're currently booking Q2 FY10 onwards as this year is already pretty full. Send me email if you want to discuss DBA, BI, developer, or internals training on 2005 or 2008.
We can provide customized courses for your staff with a combination of teaching, consulting, and auditing.
We're available to provide remote or onsite auditing services - database maintenance, HA/DR, performance, and more. Ranging from a comprehensive onsite audit
to just a few hours remote consulting time analyzing your practices, we can provide a cost-effective, targeted audit. See our consulting/auditing
page for more details and my recent blog post for a special promotion!
Lastly, as you'll see on our contact page, the easiest way to get hold of us is by email as we're not often in the office to answer the phone. If you do call, please leave
your email address in the message for the fastest response.
Thanks, Paul (January 20th 2010) Send email
|
|
|
|
| Welcome to SQLskills! |
|
|
This site is dedicated to providing helpful content, resource links, conference scripts, and all sorts of
tips and tricks related to Microsoft® SQL Server®.
|
|
|
| Meet the team... |
ÞKimberly L. Tripp (MVP and Regional Director)
ÞPaul S. Randal (MVP and Regional Director)
ÞBob Beauchemin (MVP)
ÞStacia Misner
|
|
|
| Upcoming Events
|
|
|
Conferences, Workshops and Seminars around the World...
SQLskills is presenting at:
ÞDevTeach in Toronto in March (Paul and Kimberly)
ÞPublic class in Boston in March (Paul and Kimberly)
ÞSQL Connections in Las Vegas in April (Paul, Kimberly, Bob, Stacia)
ÞSee the full schedule of Upcoming Events here.
|
|
|
| Special Events
|
|
|
SQL Immersion Events
After great reviews from our ealier SQL Immersion Events, be sure that SQLskills is planning more. We've already started to announce events
in 2010. Immersion Events are unique and individually planned seminars and workshops, with content
specifically created by database-related industry experts. The training materials are customized to provide deep coverage enabling attendees to
master the content. These RARE, small and intense events are the place to be for high quality SQL Server training.
Subscribers will be the first to know - and the first to be offered special discounts and incentives. Classes are limited to 36
attendees and often event/site specific limitations exist and many courses have a maximum of only 20 to 24. Be sure to register early as these classes have
sold out in the past. Subscribe now!
|
|
|
|
|
| New Magazine articles, November 2009
|
|
|
|
The latest article Paul wrote for TechNet Magazine has been published - on Recovering from
Disasters using Backups. You can get it
here.
|
|
Bob's latest column in MSDN magazine is about visualizing spatial data using three different
visualization products. You can get to it
here.
|
|
|
| Whitepaper: Data Development Platform
|
|
Bob's whitepaper, "Guide to the Data Development Platform for .NET Developers" is available.
It covers .NET integration in SQL Server as well as data access stacks. You can get it
here.
|
|
|
| Whitepaper: High Availability with SQL Server 2008
|
|
The latest whitepaper that Paul wrote for Microsoft has been published. You can get it
here.
|
|
|
| August 2009 MSDN Magazine Data Access Article
|
|
Bob's latest Under The Table article in the August MSDN Magazine is on how data access code can affect database performance. You can get to the article
here.
|
|
|
| July 2009 TechNet Magazine Backups Article
|
|
The feature article on Understanding SQL Server Backups Paul wrote for the July issue of TechNet Magazine is live on the web. It also includes a
screencast he recorded where he demos using tail-of-the-log backups for up-to-the-minute recovery. You can get to the article
here.
|
|
|
Very occasionally we send email about new public classes to this mailing list - everything on the site is freely available and you do NOT need to subscribe to access it
(And don't worry - we *rarely* send email. )
Login or subcribe!
|
|
|
|
| SQLskills Online Resources
|
|
|
Conference Resources
If you're looking for Demo Scripts and other useful conference resources, review the full list of past events with their resources here.
|
|
|
Webcasts
Kimberly's 10-part MSDN series A Primer to Proper SQL Server Development, her 11-part TechNet series SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional, and more here.
|
|
|
|
|
|
