Monthly Archives: August 2011

Ready for Training: The Vacation

You might be laughing.  Do I really think that a week of SQLskills Performance Tuning training is a vacation?  I do. Merriam-Webster defines vacation as: a respite or a time of respite from something.  From what I am seeking a respite?  Work. But…most of my work is SQL Server, right? Kind of.  Since taking a…

Ready for Training: Focus on Learning

This post has been much harder to write than the other three this week.  Not because I’m any less excited about what I have to say, I’m just struggling to convey my point clearly and concisely. Attending SQLskills training has been described as drinking from a firehose.  If you have read posts from other people that attended…

Ready for Training: The Peeps

Today’s post is the third of five detailing what I’m looking forward to about the SQLskills Performance Tuning event next week.  Now, when I registered for the class initially, I was simply thinking about all the knowledge I would gain. What I didn’t consider were all the people from the SQL Community that I would…

Ready for Training: The Instructors

Yesterday I started my 5 day series about next week’s SQLskills training by reviewing the content that will be covered during the Performance Tuning class. Today I want to talk about the instructors, Kimberly Tripp ( b | t ), Paul Randal ( b | t ) and Jonathan Keyahias ( b | t )….