As I announced in our Insider newsletter last week, we’ve designed some new Immersion Events to expand the curriculum we offer. We have a new Immersion Event on Advanced Transact-SQL! This is a four-day class taught by Bob Beauchemin, our resident developer expert. The first public class will be offered in Bellevue, WA on September 30 – October 3, 2013 – which [...]
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New Immersion Event on Advanced Transact-SQL
Posted on: May 22, 2013 7:39 am
New Immersion Event on SQL Server Hardware
Posted on: May 19, 2013 3:37 pm
As I announced in our Insider newsletter last week, we’ve designed some new Immersion Events to expand the curriculum we offer. We have a new Immersion Event on SQL Server Hardware! This is a two-day class taught by Glenn Berry, author of the popular SQL Server Hardware textbook. The first public class will be offered [...]
Last call for London classes until 2015 or 2016
Posted on: May 6, 2013 3:14 pm
Over the last few months we’ve started thinking about our 2014 and 2015 international class locations. We’ve been in London for the last three years (including this year) but we’re asked for lots of different non-US locations. We’re seeing more people traveling from Europe to our US classes and we want to hit some of [...]
Chicago classes are all sold out, don’t wait to register for London
Posted on: April 16, 2013 1:40 pm
As of this afternoon all eight classes we’re doing in Chicago in April/May are sold out – that’s 160 people we’ll be training! The reason for this post is to remind those of you who are planning to come to one of our London classes in June that they’re all more than half full already [...]
New online course on communication skills
Posted on: February 10, 2013 11:54 am
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
Posted on: January 18, 2013 9:15 am
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
Posted on: November 16, 2012 3:33 pm
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 [...]
All SQLskills 2013 Immersion Events open for registration!
Posted on: September 16, 2012 11:11 am
All of our 2013 public classes are now open for registration! Based on requests from people, attendee ratings of the hotels we used this year, and the ease of using hotels we know, we’re using the same locations again. This means we cover both sides of the US, central US, and Europe. Please know that [...]
SQLskills training goes online worldwide (and free in September!)
Posted on: September 4, 2012 6:52 am
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 [...]
Training budget: use it or lose it – prepaid seats offer
Posted on: December 7, 2011 11:04 am
It's the end of the financial year for most companies and we've had two companies in the last week approach us about pre-paying for 2012 classes to use up 2011 budget. We've put together an offer that will run from now through the end of April (to entice you to spend 2012 budget early too!) [...]
Four new Spring 2012 classes in Chicago, IL open for registration
Posted on: December 1, 2011 4:10 pm
We’re continuing to add to our 2012 class roster (see the Tampa classes in February/March) and we’re coming back to Chicago by popular demand in Spring 2012! We’re teaching our first two 5-day Immersion Events back-to-back in Chicago plus we’re co-locating our Immersion Event on Business Intelligence along with week 1, and our Immersion Event for Developers along with [...]
Spring 2012 classes in Tampa, FL open for registration
Posted on: October 6, 2011 11:05 am
We’ve started to confirm our 2012 classes, and we’re coming to the south-east of the US by popular demand in Spring 2012! We’re teaching three 5-day classes back-to-back in Tampa, FL so not only can you get your learning on, you can also escape the winter weather and get your shorts and sunglasses on too! We don’t [...]
New DBA, dev, BI classes for Fall in Chicago and Atlanta
Posted on: July 13, 2011 11:23 am
We’ve just finalized our Fall line-up of classes, and we’re very excited to introduce two new classes on development and business intelligence. This means SQLskills.com now covers the full spectrum of SQL Server technologies with master-level classes taught by five of the most highly-respected and deeply-qualified instructors in the world. We don’t allow anyone else [...]
Job security, loyalty, and employee retention: you need to take control
Posted on: April 19, 2011 10:50 am
(Used with permission from Dilbert.com) It's an interesting marketplace for DBAs right now. Depending on who you speak to, and what your view into the DBA world is, a few data points are evident: There's a view that all the good people already have jobs There's a view that it's pretty hard right now [...]
London class in June open for public registration
Posted on: March 14, 2011 6:34 pm
The Immersion Event on Internals and Performance in London, UK from 20-24 June, 2011 is now open for public registration! It’s been open to SQLskills Insiders for the past two weeks, with an exclusive discount offer, and is 1/3 full already. The hotel discount link will be sent to all registered attendees as soon as it [...]
Internals, Design, and Performance class in Chicago in May
Posted on: March 7, 2011 6:21 am
A few weeks ago Kimberly did a blog post survey about which city in the US you'd like to see us come to with our next Immersion Event and there were two that stood out: Chicago, IL and Tampa, FL. We looked into the logistics of putting on an event at each location and we ended up [...]
London calling…
Posted on: February 19, 2011 8:59 am
Continuing our musical theme this week is the The Clash with their classic '79 album London Calling… Which incidentally, is what's been happening to us over the last month as so many of you have asked us to bring our Immersion Events to the UK for the first time ever. Well, we've answered your [...]
My name is Kyle, and I’ve got SQLskills
Posted on: February 10, 2011 6:10 am
It's all very well hearing about how cool our training classes our from *us*, but what do attendees like you think? I recently did an email interview with Kyle Hayes, a member of the Production DBA Team for Bridgepoint Education. He attended our Immersion Event back in August 2010 in Bellevue, WA. Here's what Kyle [...]
