{"id":3874,"date":"2013-01-18T09:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/paul\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2019-12-30T17:28:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T01:28:31","slug":"free-24-hour-pass-for-pluralsight-online-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/free-24-hour-pass-for-pluralsight-online-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Free 24-hour pass for Pluralsight online courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve recorded. There are no strings attached and no credit-card registration required &#8211; they&#8217;re just celebrating raising a whopping $27.5 million in investment funding.<\/p>\n<p>BUT you&#8217;ve only got until January 31<sup>st<\/sup> to take advantage of their offer. This is a really cool deal &#8211; just think, you could blaze through a few of our courses one day over a weekend.<\/p>\n<h2>Our courses&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got 13 courses up there, totaling more than 45 hours of training (and more than 25 more planned for 2013):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SQL Server: Myths and Misconceptions &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-myths\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Transact-SQL Basic Data Modification &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-datamodification\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Transact-SQL Basic Data Retrieval &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-dataretrieval\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Collecting and Analyzing Trace Data &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-sqltrace\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Introduction to Extended Events &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-basicxevents\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Performance Troubleshooting Using Wait Statistics &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-waits\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Benchmarking and Baselining &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-benchmarking\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Deadlock Analysis and Prevention &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-deadlocks\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Understanding Server Hardware &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/server-hardware\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Logging, Recovery, and the Transaction Log &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-logging\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Common Performance Issue Patterns &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-cpip\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server 2012: Installation and Configuration &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-2012ic\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQL Server: Troubleshooting Query Plan Quality Issues &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-tqpq\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to register?<\/h2>\n<p>You can register for the free pass here. 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