Category Archives: Training

SQLskills Training, Day 5: Beyond Training

The last day of training was well over a week ago, and yes, I am finally pulling together the blog post that covers Day 5.  I also wanted to write some kind of overall summary and after some events in the past week or so, I decided to just incorporate that here. Day 5 We…

SQLskills Training, Day 4: Hitting the Wall

I originally wrote this post last Thursday night, August 11th, at the end of day four of SQLskills training.  However, I was exhausted and went to bed after writing, without publishing.  I am now finally catching up… Ok, I’m tired.  I knew it would happen this week, where I kind of hit a wall.  I…

SQLskills Training, Day 3: Hello Extended Events!

It’s the end of day 3, and I admit, I didn’t even get this post started this morning…but that certainly isn’t because I wasn’t looking forward to today.  Most of today was presented by Jonathan ( t ), and we started with Extended Events.  I am glad we did this first! I took a lot…

SQLskills Training, Day 2: Here’s Jonathan

Today starts the second day of SQLskills training, and this day is all Jonathan ( b | t ).  That means we’ll be learning about things like SANs, the SQLOS and Extended Events.  It’s a big day.  One thing I’m looking forward to is hearing Jonathan explain how a SAN takes a backup of a database (quickly)…