{"id":4785,"date":"2017-08-08T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/paul\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2017-08-14T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:14:17","slug":"competition-win-a-free-seat-in-our-classes-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/competition-win-a-free-seat-in-our-classes-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition: win a free seat in our classes in October!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u2019re really excited about the classes we\u2019ve got coming up in Chicago and to say \u2018thank you\u2019 to the SQL community for all your support of SQLskills.com over the years, we\u2019re running a competition. It&#8217;s been a while since we ran a competition so we&#8217;re giving away TWO prizes this time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. Winner details are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/so-why-do-you-want-to-come-to-our-training-and-the-winners-are\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are two prizes:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>A\u00a0<strong>free seat<\/strong>\u00a0in our\u00a05-day IEPTO1: Performance Tuning and Optimization &#8211; Part 1 class in Chicago, October 2-6, 2017 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/sql-server-training\/chicago-iepto1-20171002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link to class details<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<strong>free seat<\/strong>\u00a0in our\u00a05-day IEPTO2: Performance Tuning and Optimization &#8211; Part 2\u00a0class in Chicago, October 9-13, 2017 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/sql-server-training\/chicago-iepto2-20171009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link to class details<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you win the competition,\u00a0<strong>you pay US$0<\/strong>\u00a0instead of the US$3,295 early-bird price or US$3,795 full price. You\u2019ll be\u00a0responsible for all travel expenses and your hotel bill.\u00a0The class includes breakfast, lunch, all-day\u00a0tea\/coffee\/soda and tons of juicy content :-)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All you have to do is pick which class you&#8217;d like to attend and write a blog post before end-of-day Sunday, August 13th, 2017 explaining:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Why you want to come to that\u00a0class taught by us<\/li>\n<li>Why you\u2019d make the best use of the knowledge you\u2019ll get from being in the class<\/li>\n<li>What your favorite performance tuning challenge is<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SQLskills will\u00a0select what we consider to be the best entry for each prize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Rules<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>You can only enter the competition once (i.e. one blog post choosing one class)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">You must write a blog post. Answers in the comments section of this post will be not be accepted. If you don&#8217;t have a blog, it&#8217;s easy to create one &#8211; e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/start\/design-type?ref=calypso-nosites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wordpress.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Your blog post must go live before 11.59pm Pacific Time on Sunday,\u00a0August 13th, 2017<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Your blog post must specify which class you&#8217;d like to attend and contain a link to the class details (see The Prize section above)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>You must post a comment on this blog post that links to your blog post before 11.59pm Pacific Time on\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0August 13th, 2017\u00a0(comments are moderated, so don&#8217;t panic if you don&#8217;t see it appear immediately)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>If you\u2019re on Twitter, you must tweet your blog post using the #sqlskills #sqlserver hash tags<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>If you win, you will be able to register for the class you chose in your\u00a0blog post at the special price of US$0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>If you win, only you can attend the class at the special price of US$0 &#8211; your prize is not transferable and is only valid for the October 2017 class<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>If you win, you will be responsible for all travel and hotel costs for attending the class<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>If you enter the competition we will include your name and link to your post in a blog post announcing the lucky winners<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you don&#8217;t agree with the rules, don&#8217;t enter &#8211; simple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u2019ll announce the lucky winners on\u00a0Monday, August 14th, 2017 in a blog post on my blog and\u00a0on Tuesday in the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/join-the-sqlskills-insider-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insider newsletter<\/a> (delayed a day).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good luck and we hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re really excited about the classes we\u2019ve got coming up in Chicago and to say \u2018thank you\u2019 to the SQL community for all your support of SQLskills.com over the years, we\u2019re running a competition. 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