Category Archives: Training

SQLskills Training, Day 1: Here We Go

It’s here.  Today’s the first day of SQLskills training.  I will not be live-tweeting or live-blogging the training (both impossible) but I am going to try and provide one update during lunch, and another at the end of the day.  We’ll see how that goes!  I have no idea what that will do in my…

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…