New online course on communication skills

My latest online training course was published by Pluralsight on Friday: Communications: How to Talk, Write, Present, and Get Ahead! The course is 2.5 hours long and draws on my extensive experience communicating and mentoring people on how to communicate more effectively. It’s aimed at everyone who needs to communicate, no matter which industry they [...]

Free 24-hour pass for Pluralsight online courses

Those nice folks at Pluralsight are offering everyone on the planet a free 24-hour pass to check out all their online courses (more than 400 of them), including all of the ones we’ve recorded. There are no strings attached and no credit-card registration required – they’re just celebrating raising a whopping $27.5 million in investment [...]

New 7.5 hour online course on logging, recovery, and the transaction log

As you know we're recording a lot of content for Pluralsight, and they've just published my latest course today: SQL Server: Logging, Recovery, and the Transaction Log. This is a carefully structured, 7.5 hour brain dump of everything I know about logging and recovery, which will be useful whether you're a beginner, a seasoned DBA, or [...]

SQLskills training goes online worldwide (and free in September!)

We can make SQL Server scale really well, but we can't scale ourselves. Although our Immersion Events are extremely popular, and in high demand, we can't spend all year traveling and teaching, and we can't come to everyone's favorite location, so we have to limit the number that we can do. Our 2013 public training [...]