We’re really excited about the classes we’ve got coming up in Chicago and to say ‘thank you’ to the SQL community for all your support of SQLskills.com over the years, we’re running a competition. It’s been a while since we ran a competition so we’re giving away TWO prizes this time!
THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. Winner details are here.
The Prize
There are two prizes:
- A free seat in our 5-day IEPTO1: Performance Tuning and Optimization – Part 1 class in Chicago, October 2-6, 2017 (link to class details)
- A free seat in our 5-day IEPTO2: Performance Tuning and Optimization – Part 2 class in Chicago, October 9-13, 2017 (link to class details)
If you win the competition, you pay US$0 instead of the US$3,295 early-bird price or US$3,795 full price. You’ll be responsible for all travel expenses and your hotel bill. The class includes breakfast, lunch, all-day tea/coffee/soda and tons of juicy content :-)
The Challenge
All you have to do is pick which class you’d like to attend and write a blog post before end-of-day Sunday, August 13th, 2017 explaining:
- Why you want to come to that class taught by us
- Why you’d make the best use of the knowledge you’ll get from being in the class
- What your favorite performance tuning challenge is
SQLskills will select what we consider to be the best entry for each prize.
The Rules
- You can only enter the competition once (i.e. one blog post choosing one class)
- You must write a blog post. Answers in the comments section of this post will be not be accepted. If you don’t have a blog, it’s easy to create one – e.g. wordpress.com
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Your blog post must go live before 11.59pm Pacific Time on Sunday, August 13th, 2017
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Your blog post must specify which class you’d like to attend and contain a link to the class details (see The Prize section above)
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You must post a comment on this blog post that links to your blog post before 11.59pm Pacific Time on Sunday, August 13th, 2017 (comments are moderated, so don’t panic if you don’t see it appear immediately)
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If you’re on Twitter, you must tweet your blog post using the #sqlskills #sqlserver hash tags
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If you win, you will be able to register for the class you chose in your blog post at the special price of US$0
- If you win, only you can attend the class at the special price of US$0 – your prize is not transferable and is only valid for the October 2017 class
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If you win, you will be responsible for all travel and hotel costs for attending the class
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If you enter the competition we will include your name and link to your post in a blog post announcing the lucky winners
If you don’t agree with the rules, don’t enter – simple.
The Summary
We’ll announce the lucky winners on Monday, August 14th, 2017 in a blog post on my blog and on Tuesday in the next Insider newsletter (delayed a day).
Good luck and we hope to see you there!
28 thoughts on “Competition: win a free seat in our classes in October!”
You guys are AMAZING!! I’ve gone out and created a blog post and am linking it here (per the instructions) to enter the contest to attend the Chicago IEPT01 class. Here’s my blog post link: sqlhacker.wordpress.com/2017/08/08/first-blog-post/. Thanks for the chance to enter to win entry into an amazing class.
Who knew writing a blog could be fun…I’m going to have to stick with it.
https://avekilo.wordpress.com/2017/08/08/not-all-training-is-created-equal/
Wow who knew techies could write so quickly even given great incentives. Thanks and please read https://databasehealth.wordpress.com/ for my 2 cents #sqlskills #sqlserver
And my one: https://sqlconsulting.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/the-best-sql-server-training-ever/
Thanks for creating this contest for our SQL Server community! Whoever wins will be getting a heaping helping of SQL Server knowledge coming their way! Cheers! https://justinonstot.com/2017/08/08/the-path-to-enlightenment-sqlskills-style/
This is awesome! I’d love to come watch one of these sessions! PASS Videos and Pluralsight Courses are great, but this would be like a cherry on top! Here’s my entry: https://iconicdba.com/2017/08/09/will-sqlskills-iepto2-class-make-me-a-better-dba-it-depends/
This is my 1st blog post and never thought I would write one. Let’s wait and watch, here’s is mine https://sqldex.com/2017/08/10/tune-yourself-to-optimize-sql-performance/
Hopefully my terrible posting frequency isn’t a strike against me: https://accitentionaldba.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/69/
Thanks for the opportunity! https://blog.bertwagner.com/sqlskills-is-giving-away-free-training-9eb4b0de96fb
My adventures in performance tuning this week. MAN I wish I could go to a class where I’d learn to do it even better!
http://thesqlnomad.com/student-ready-teacher-will-appear/
thank you all for the opportunity, I hope it’s good enough.
http://why-iepto1-class.blogspot.ca/2017/08/this-is-my-blog-in-response-to.html
I don’t know what’s more thrilling. The chance to win exceptional training or that someone is finally going to read my blog! http://bit.ly/2uD3hJJ
Hopefully I’m now in the running for SQL Skills IEPTO2 training in October. https://sqlpassion.org/2017/08/13/first-blog-post/
Regardless of the outcome of the contest. a big thank you to the SQLSkills.com team for all they do for the SQL Server community ( and for providing me with the kick in the pants to start blogging :)
Thanks for the opportunity. Below is my entry to the contest. Good luck everyone. https://dataartisans.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/the-gift-of-training/
Here is my blog submission.https://mohammaddarab.com/iepto2-performance-tuning-and-optimization/
It’s an honor to be part of this amazing competition!
Awesome opportunity – here’s my entry: https://mattsql.wordpress.com/immersion-submission/
This is my blog post for entering the contest for IEPTO1.
https://lisahessblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/missing-puzzle-pieces/
Loved writing a simple Blog,
https://sqlservertrainingblog.wordpress.com/
I know Paul can teach SQL but now I know he taught me Blog too!!
I don’t know where my last comment went so I’m doing it again.
here’s my post for IEPTO1, http://sqlnut.weebly.com/blog
Thank You for the opportunity
Thanks very much for this opportunity. Please see this link for my entry: https://readdirtypages.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/sql-skills-competition/
I would love to attend. I’ve never been a blogger, so hopefully I did ok. I kind of feel like Ralphie in the Christmas Story, so if you can pretend you are the teacher in his dream that would help, the one that said A++++++…, not the one that said you’ll shot your eye out.
https://kevcrisql.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/first-blog-post/
Thank you for this opportunity.