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Who are SQLskills?
We're different. We don't advise baseless operational/design best-practices. We explain everything, to whatever depth you want to go.
SQLskills.com is owned and run by world-renowned SQL Server experts Paul S. Randal
and Kimberly L. Tripp. The husband-and-wife team have over 30 years
combined experience working with all sizes of SQL Server databases, in organizations as diverse as Fortune-100 companies to small, single-database businesses.
Together they teach the storage internals, performance tuning, database design, database maintenance, and disaster recovery sections of Microsoft's most advanced course -
Microsoft Certified Master - SQL Server.
The newest addition to the SQLskills.com team, Brent Ozar, is recent successful graduate of
the MCM program from 2010. Brent is a very well-known and highly-respected SQL Server guru, specializing in performance tuning, storage systems, and virtualization.
With development expert Bob Beauchemin and BI expert
Stacia Misner, SQLskills.com teaches all of Microsoft's internal SQL Server
classes, to it's developers, DBAs, and other SQL Server experts. We are also tapped by Microsoft to author launch content, books, numerous whitepapers, technical articles,
and to consult on internal SQL Server projects.
Both Paul and Kimberly used to work on the SQL Server team (in fact, Paul wrote large portions of the SQL Server code and helped design many features through SQL server 2008).
Bob, Brent, Kimberly, Paul, and Stacia are all very seasoned, and consistently top-rated trainers and presenters at companies and conferences around the world.
You only want to work with the best - that's us - we really do know SQL Server inside and out!
But don't take our word for it, check out the new Past Customers page for clients and testimonials.
What's New with SQLskills? Brent Ozar joining the team!!
JUST ANNOUNCED: We've confirmed our next class is a 5-day BI Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA October 25-29 2010 Due to popular demand we've managed to squeeze
in another week-long class this Fall in Washington, taught by our BI expert Stacia Misner. This will follow our tried-and-tested 5-day format. See our
Immersion Events page for details and registration.
Send me email if you want to discuss DBA, BI, developer,
or internals training on 2005 or 2008. We can provide customized courses for your staff with a combination of teaching, consulting, and auditing.
As well as on-site work, we can provide cost-effective remote auditing services - database maintenance, HA/DR, performance, and more. Ranging from a comprehensive onsite
audit to just a few hours remote consulting time analyzing your practices, we can provide a thorough audit. See our consulting and
auditing pages for more details.
Lastly, as you'll see on our contact page, the easiest way to get hold of us is by email as we're not often in the office to answer the phone. If you do call, please leave
your email address in the message for the fastest response.
Thanks, Paul (August 24th 2010) Send email
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| Welcome to SQLskills! |
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This site is dedicated to providing helpful content, resource links, conference scripts, and all sorts of
tips and tricks related to Microsoft® SQL Server®.
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| Meet the team... |
ÞKimberly L. Tripp (MVP and Regional Director)
ÞPaul S. Randal (MVP and Regional Director)
ÞBrent Ozar (MVP and Microsoft Certified Master - SQL)
ÞBob Beauchemin (MVP)
ÞStacia Misner
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Conferences, Workshops and Seminars around the World...
SQLskills is presenting at:
ÞPublic BI Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in October (Stacia)
ÞSQL Connections, Las Vegas in November (Paul, Kimberly)
ÞPASS Community Summit, Seattle, WA in November (Paul, Kimberly, Brent)
ÞSee the full schedule of Upcoming Events here.
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SQL Immersion Events
After great reviews from our ealier SQL Immersion Events, be sure that SQLskills is planning more. We've already started to announce events
in 2010. Immersion Events are unique and individually planned seminars and workshops, with content
specifically created by database-related industry experts. The training materials are customized to provide deep coverage enabling attendees to
master the content. These RARE, small and intense events are the place to be for high quality SQL Server training.
Subscribers will be the first to know - and the first to be offered special discounts and incentives. Classes are limited to 36
attendees and often event/site specific limitations exist and many courses have a maximum of only 20 to 24. Be sure to register early as these classes have
sold out in the past.
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| Whitepaper: Proven SQL Server Architectures for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
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The latest whitepaper that Paul wrote for Microsoft has been published. You can get it
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| November 2009 Disaster Recovery article
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The latest article Paul wrote for TechNet Magazine has been published - on Recovering from
Disasters using Backups. You can get it
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Bob's latest column in MSDN magazine is about visualizing spatial data using three different
visualization products. You can get to it
here.
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| Whitepaper: Data Development Platform
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Bob's whitepaper, "Guide to the Data Development Platform for .NET Developers" is available.
It covers .NET integration in SQL Server as well as data access stacks. You can get it
here.
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| Whitepaper: High Availability with SQL Server 2008
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The latest whitepaper that Paul wrote for Microsoft has been published. You can get it
here.
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| August 2009 MSDN Magazine Data Access Article
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Bob's latest Under The Table article in the August MSDN Magazine is on how data access code can affect database performance. You can get to the article
here.
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| July 2009 TechNet Magazine Backups Article
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The feature article on Understanding SQL Server Backups Paul wrote for the July issue of TechNet Magazine is live on the web. It also includes a
screencast he recorded where he demos using tail-of-the-log backups for up-to-the-minute recovery. You can get to the article
here.
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Very occasionally we send email about new public classes to this mailing list - everything on the site is freely available and you do NOT need to subscribe to access it
(And don't worry - we *rarely* send email. )
Login or subcribe!
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| SQLskills Online Resources
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Conference Resources
If you're looking for Demo Scripts and other useful conference resources, review the full list of past events with their resources here.
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Webcasts
Kimberly's 10-part MSDN series A Primer to Proper SQL Server Development, her 11-part TechNet series SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional, and more
here.
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