{"id":565,"date":"2008-09-23T23:19:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T23:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/kimberly\/post\/Budgets-training-where-is-your-money-best-spent.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-02T06:56:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T14:56:42","slug":"budgets-training-where-is-your-money-best-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/budgets-training-where-is-your-money-best-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"Budgets, training, where is your money best spent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I&#8217;ve tackled this type of question before but it&#8217;s a very challenging thing to decide. Budgets are tight and training is always hard to quantify. However, working more efficiently and effectively &#8211; when properly trained &#8211; means smoother operations, less downtime, less data loss, less stress.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So, if you&#8217;re looking for some ideas on training (conferences vs. traditional classes vs. &#8220;immersion events&#8221;) then check out my post where I explain different events and different types of training <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/2006\/06\/28\/immersioneventsareback.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>As for the most in-depth &#8211; and public event that Paul and I offer&#8230; it&#8217;s coming up quickly in San Fran and I thought I&#8217;d do a quick post to get you some details. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.devconnections.com\/SFWorkshops\/default.asp?c=3&amp;s=127\"><IMG src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/content\/binary\/sfpowerworkshop.jpg\" border=0><\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>San Francisco, CA &#8211; Oct 6-7-8, 2008<BR><\/STRONG>SQL Server 2008&nbsp;Workshop for&nbsp;DBAs\/ITPros (and even developers who just want to know more about how things work!). This is probably closest to an Immersion Event but it&#8217;s great because we&#8217;ll be doing lecture and hands-on (bring your own laptop) by handing out our newly updated 2008 Hands-on lab DVD (which has a 2008 RTM VPC on it that does&#8217;t expire until 12\/31\/2009!). Here&#8217;s a link to a detailed post that Paul did about the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/2008\/09\/10\/sqlserver2008publicclassdatabaseinfrastructureandscalability.aspx\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and click on the pic above to get to the site itself.&nbsp;This will be a relatively small and in-depth event where we get 2.5 days to cover a ton of new 2008 features (and general best practices\/tips\/tricks)! <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Finally, Paul and I have been offline a bit recently as we&#8217;ve been out of the country &#8211; first, presenting in London, Dublin and Edinburgh and then attending Paul&#8217;s sister&#8217;s wedding in Scotland (and then celebrating my (yes, 29 [again!]) birthday with a sight-seeing trip around Skye). I think I need to do a post with a few pictures&#8230; Paul in a kilt springs to mind!<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Happy September!<\/STRONG><BR>kt<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tackled this type of question before but it&#8217;s a very challenging thing to decide. Budgets are tight and training is always hard to quantify. However, working more efficiently and effectively &#8211; when properly trained &#8211; means smoother operations, less downtime, less data loss, less stress. So, if you&#8217;re looking for some ideas on training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-sql-server-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}