Time flies when you're having fun! August is fast approaching and it brings the last set of scheduled SQLskills Immersion Events of 2012 – Bellevue, WA. We will not be doing any more public classes after August anywhere in the world until Spring 2013. The main reason for this is that the team has a [...]

We're just back from presenting three Immersion events back-to-back in Tampa (see Brad Hoff's summary here, Tim Radney's here, and Randolph Potter's here) and while there we discussed our plans for the remainder of 2012. I know a lot of you have been waiting to see whether we will add another set of classes later in [...]

We’re really excited about the classes we’ve got coming up and to say ‘thank you’ to the SQL community for all your support of SQLskills.com over the years, we’re running a competition. The contest is now closed. The Prize The prize is a free seat in our class in our 5-day Internals and Performance class in [...]

We like to keep our class sizes limited to around 30 so that everyone gets a chance to ask all the questions they want and we have time to spend answering them in whatever depth is needed. So far we're up to 20 registrations for the San Diego class (December 6-10), which means we've got [...]

Time is running out to sign up for our BI class in Bellevue, WA in a couple of weeks… there are some spots left so make sure one of them goes to you! Check out our Immersion Event page for details – hope to see you there! PS Next week I'll have time to put [...]

It's official! We're doing another 5-day SQL Immersion Event (our ever-popular SQL Server master-class) this year in the US! Through popular demand we've decided to put on a class in San Diego, CA this time – the climate is *much* better than Seattle in December! The class will follow our regular 5-day format with our best [...]

It's official! We're putting on a 5-day BI Immersion Event this year in the US! We've just confirmed with our well-known BI expert, Stacia Misner, who will be teaching the class. Stacia teaches all the Microsoft internal BI classes and we're looking forward to sitting in on the class to learn from her too. Check [...]

We've got two more classes on the books now for 2010 – a 5-day BI class in Bellevue, WA the week of October 25th, and a 5-day SQL Immersion class in San Diego, CA the week of December 6th. Watch the blogs for announcements for when registration goes live. In the meantime, here a some [...]

With exactly a month to go until our 5-day Immersion event in Bellevue, WA we've got 25 people registered for the class (wow!) and space for a few more! It's going to be a *really* good class – with people flying in from all over the country to spend the week with us. We're also [...]

One of the places I really look forward to going every year is Dublin – not just for the countryside, friendly people, and our very good friends Carmel, Sandra, and Bob of Prodata, but also for the fabulous Irish breakfasts that the hotel serves – nowhere beats it, not even Scotland! And now that time [...]

It's official! We're doing another 5-day SQL Immersion Event (our ever-popular SQL Server master-class) this year in the US! We decided to put on a class near Seattle this time as Washington is *fabulous* in August! The class will follow our regular 5-day format with our best content covering: On-disk structures: how the data is [...]

      The top things YOU need to know about managing SQL Server – in one place, on one day – presented by two of the best SQL Server industry trainers! This one-day MasterClass (June 17th, 2010) will focus on many of the top issues companies face when implementing and maintaining a SQL Server-based [...]

We enjoyed Dublin so much in 2008 and 2009 that we're going back for two weeks this time – and teaching three classes while we're there! We'll be working with our fabulous friends (Carmel, Sandra, and Bob) at Prodata and the event will be hosted by the nice folks at Microsoft Ireland. We'll also be [...]

Our first public class of the year is just over 3 weeks away! This is the *only* public class we'll be teaching in the US in 2010. There are a few spots left so book now to avoid disappointment. We've teamed up with our good friend Adam Machanic to bring a week-long custom class to the [...]

The first of our public classes (what we call Immersion Events) in 2010 is now officially open for registrations! We've teamed up with our good friend Adam Machanic to bring a week-long custom class to the Boston area. In this class Kimberly and I take turns teaching modules and we're both on hand to answer questions, [...]

While we’re in Ireland teaching our Immersion Event (week-long in-depth class on SQL Server internals/performance/maintenance/DR), we’ll be doing a user group meeting as well in Dublin on Wednesday September 23rd.  The Immersion Event (Septemer 21-25) already has a good class size but of course we have space for a a few more attendees – check [...]

Kimberly and I will be teaching a week-long public Immersion Event in Dublin, September 21-25, in partnership with our good friends at Prodata and Microsoft Ireland. The class will cover: Day 1: SQL Server Internals (On-disk structures, index internals, logging, recovery, transaction log architecture) Day 2: Designing for Performance (data types, table and index partitioning) Day [...]

Well, we’re here in England now to teach the first of our UK classes and we’re staying with our good friend Tony Rogerson (UK SQL Server Community founder and SQLBits co-organizer) and his great family once again – I was beaten at tennis on the Wii by their 5-year old son last night… It’s too late to [...]

In conjunction with our Iceland partners Miracle, we’re offering three BI classes in Iceland in September, taught by Stacia Misner. The three classes are as follows: September 17th-19th: Expanding Your SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Skills, Part 1 Abstract: Deeper than traditional introductory courses for SQL Server 2005 business intelligence technologies, this course teaches students [...]