{"id":4178,"date":"2013-07-01T07:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/paul\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2017-04-13T12:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:47:42","slug":"sqlskills-training-for-only-29-a-month-try-it-free-for-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sqlskills-training-for-only-29-a-month-try-it-free-for-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"SQLskills training for only $29 a month? Try it free for 10 days!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really simple post, making sure you&#8217;re aware of the incredibly cost-effective way you can get hold of the kind of quality SQL Server training that only SQLskills provides.<\/p>\n<p>Since last year we&#8217;ve been recording a variety of online training courses, partnering with our good friends at Pluralsight. They provide a hassle-free, multi-platform way (including common mobile devices) of watching online training, so why would we try to build and maintain something ourselves, when what we&#8217;re good at is SQL Server?<\/p>\n<p>We decided to provide online training both as an alternative for those who aren&#8217;t able to attend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/sql-server-training\/\" target=\"_blank\">our in-person classes<\/a>, and as a way to complement those classes.<\/p>\n<p>You may have heard that we&#8217;ve been doing that. However, you may not be aware of just how inexpensive it is to get hold of our training: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/signup\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>$29 a month, or $299 a year<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And for that you get all our online training, <strong>currently more than 72 hours in 21 courses<\/strong>, with all the new courses we record and publish (more than 15 more slated for 2013 alone). They&#8217;re chock full of meaningful demos, real-world scenarios, and information you need to help you work more productively and effectively with SQL Server.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <strong>you also get the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/training\/Courses\" target=\"_blank\">530 technical training courses that Pluralsight provides<\/a><\/strong>, with many thousands of hours more training on SharePoint, C#, Windows, ASP.NET, BI, and lots more!<\/p>\n<p><strong>All for $29 a month<\/strong>. Not bad eh? Can you really afford to be missing out on what your colleagues and rivals-for-jobs are watching and learning?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try 200 minutes of course material over ten days for free<\/strong> &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/a\/subscribe\/step1\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Here&#8217;s our current catalog:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/communication-skills\" target=\"_blank\">Communications: How to Talk, Write, Present, and Get Ahead!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-developing-deploying-supporting-isv-applications\" target=\"_blank\">Developing and Deploying SQL Server ISV Applications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-hardware-evaluation\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server 2012: Evaluating and Sizing Hardware<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-2012ic\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server 2012: Installation and Configuration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sql-server-2012-nonclustered-columnstore-indexes\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server 2012: Nonclustered Columnstore Indexes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-advanced-xevents\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Advanced Extended Events<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-benchmarking\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Benchmarking and Baselining<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-sqltrace\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Collecting and Analyzing Trace Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-cpip\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Common Performance Issue Patterns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-deadlocks\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Deadlock Analysis and Prevention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-basicxevents\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Introduction to Extended Events<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-logging\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Logging, Recovery, and the Transaction Log<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-myths\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Myths and Misconceptions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-waits\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Performance Troubleshooting Using Wait Statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-query-plan-analysis\">SQL Server: Query Plan Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-datamodification\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Transact-SQL Basic Data Modification<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-dataretrieval\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Transact-SQL Basic Data Retrieval<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-transactional-replication-fundamentals\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Transactional Replication Fundamentals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-tqpq\" target=\"_blank\">SQL Server: Troubleshooting Query Plan Quality Issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/server-hardware\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding Server Hardware<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">See you online!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really simple post, making sure you&#8217;re aware of the incredibly cost-effective way you can get hold of the kind of quality SQL Server training that only SQLskills provides. 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