{"id":4635,"date":"2016-07-21T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/paul\/?p=4635"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:40:37","slug":"new-course-consolidation-tactics-and-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/new-course-consolidation-tactics-and-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"New course: Consolidation Tactics and Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim\u2019s first ever Pluralsight\u00a0course has been published &#8211;\u00a0<em>SQL Server: Consolidation Tactics and Best Practices<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; and is just over two hours\u00a0long. It\u00a0consolidates (ha!) all of Tim&#8217;s knowledge and experience from managing major consolidation projects over the years, as well as client experience from the SQLskills team.<\/p>\n<p>The modules are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>General Considerations<\/li>\n<li>Consolidation Candidates<\/li>\n<li>Large Single Instance<\/li>\n<li>Multiple Instance<\/li>\n<li>Virtualization<\/li>\n<li>Migration Strategies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/courses\/sqlserver-consolidation-tactics-best-practices\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We now have more than 145 hours of SQLskills online training available (see all our courses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/sql-server-training\/online-training\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), all for as little as $29\/month through Pluralsight (including more than 4,500\u00a0other developer and IT training courses). 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