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[New England] SQL Saturday #203: April 5-6, Cambridge MA

Adam Machanic — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:10:00 GMT

SQL Saturday returns to the Boston area this April, with what is certain to be an exceptional speaker and session lineup. (The actual schedule will be posted soon, but in the meantime you can see the submitted sessions.)

The free event ($10 if you'd like to eat lunch) will take place on Saturday, April 6. Highly recommended for anyone in the area who is interested in bettering your database skills!

Friday, April 5, as a lead in to the Saturday event, I'll be delivering my popular full-day "No More Guessing!" seminar. This seminar teaches a solid, proven performance troubleshooting methodology designed to help you quickly find the actual root cause of performance problems. Full information is available on the registration site.

This seminar has sold out at events like PASS Summit and SQLBits, and it is being offered in Boston at the discounted price, so book early to avoid disappointment.

Huge thanks to Mike Hillwig for taking the lead on putting together this event. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

SQL in Boston -- Red Gate Style

Adam Machanic — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:03:00 GMT

You might have heard of Red Gate's famous SQL in the City events: free, full-day educational events where you can learn from Red Gate's own evangelists in addition to various MVPs and other guests. With just a tiny bit of marketing thrown in for good measure (don't worry, it's not a daylong sales pitch).

Red Gate is doing a US tour this fall, and I'm happy to note that my fair city of Boston is one of the stops... and I am one of the speakers.

The event takes place on October 8. I'll be delivering a talk entitled "The Ten Commandments of SQL Server Monitoring."

I've not yet received all ten commandments, but my tablets are initialized and my stylus is at the ready. I'm sure I'll have some good information to share with you come October.

Hope to see you there!

Excellent Job Opportunity: SQL Developer in Boston MA

Adam Machanic — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:09:00 GMT

Want to do interesting, in-depth SQL Server development work for a great company?

If the answer is yes, you should drop me a line immediately. Send me your resume at [my first name] @ [the name of this site].

More information:

This job is working on a data warehouse for a financial services company in Boston, MA. I cannot publicly mention the company name or say much about it, but if you e-mail me a resume I'll be happy to share more information. What I can say is that it's a solid company with a great reputation in the industry, and a fantastic place to work. The position is located in Boston, MA, and either requires that you live here or travel here (at your own expense) on a fairly regular basis. The company would prefer to hire fulltime employees, but there may be room for a contractor -- e-mail me and we'll see.

The project itself is to work with a small team of dedicated database developers, on a project very core to the company's mission. There are a lot of interesting challenges, there is a lot of work to be done, and the project is a very high visibility endeavor. The team is small and the project is somewhat loosely managed, so team members are expected to be the kind of people who can drive themselves forward, set their own goals, and make progress without a whole lot of hand holding. If you're the kind of person who is a self-starter and loves to learn, this is an environment in which you can really flourish.

Task-wise you'll be expected, depending on the day, to do some database design, some ETL, and usually a lot of T-SQL development. Performance is of paramount importance and the company is looking for people who have good to excellent understanding of SQL Server internals and can handle complex query tuning challenges. If you're the kind of person who gets excited when Paul White writes a new blog post, you'd be a great fit.

I can't say anything more here; if you're interested, drop me a line and I'll be happy to chat with you either via email or over the phone. I think this is a great opportunity and I hope some of my readers will want to give it a shot.

Spend a Week With Kalen Delaney in the Boston Area

Adam Machanic — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:30:00 GMT

If you're reading this blog, you're undoubtedly already familiar with Kalen Delaney. She's been writing the premier internals book series for Microsoft since SQL Server 7.0, teaching SQL Server for many years before that, and is known as one of the most knowledgeable people in the world when it comes to how SQL Server works and the art of applying that knowledge to your day-to-day work.

Given Kalen's extreme depth and reputation as a fantastic teacher, it should come as no surprise that last time we brought her to the Boston area the class sold out and we were forced to go to a wait list. Those who did get a seat praised the class as the best they've ever taken. So we've decided to bring her back to the area again for everyone who wasn't able to attend last time.

If you're serious about getting to the next level with SQL Server, this is the class for you. You'll learn internals and query optimization from one of the best in the business. The course will take place in the Boston area, April 11-16.

If you book before February 1 you can take advantage of our early bird $400 discount. This is an incredible bargain for a fantastic learning experience.

Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to see you in Boston!

[New England] Last-Minute Discount for SSIS Mastery

Adam Machanic — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:20:00 GMT

Just a quick post to let you know that there are still some seats available for Andy Leonard's "From Zero to SSIS" course, running October 6-8 in Waltham, MA.

To help move the final seats we're offering a great discount to companies that are interested in sending more than one student. If you send two people, each seat will be reduced by $700, for a combined $1400 in savings.

As usual, let me know if you have any questions about the course or the offer.

Three Days with an SSIS Master - In the Boston Area - At a Discounted Price

Adam Machanic — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:57:00 GMT

If you've been working with SQL Server for long, you are no doubt familiar with the work of Andy Leonard. Andy is a true master of the art and science of data extraction, transformation, and loading. And as his recent blog series on the software business shows, he has also fine-tuned the art of dealing with the many types of people you're likely to meet when putting together enterprise-class solutions.

What does it mean to take this combined experience and apply it to an SSIS training course? Simple: You're guaranteed both the career enhancement of learning ETL from one of the best in the industry, and the benefit of war stories from someone who has truly seen it all.

Whether you're new to ETL or have been using SSIS for years, Andy's "From Zero to SSIS" course will help you get to the next level. Andy will start with basic material and quickly progress into some of the most advanced SSIS training material available in a public class. This is a rare opportunity to take a full journey through a topic that is at once both easy to use and deeply complex.

This class will take place October 6 - 8 at the Microsoft Technology Center in scenic Waltham, MA, a 20-minute drive from downtown Boston. And if the weather behaves you can expect to experience the class amidst the beautiful color spectrum of fall in New England.

From now through the end of the month, you can take advantage of a $150 discount on the course fee. Feel free to leave a comment below if you have any questions about the class.

Enjoy!

[New England] Kalen Delaney Internals and Query Tuning - in the Boston area October 12-16

Adam Machanic — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:16:00 GMT

In case you missed Kalen's post, we're excited to announce that she will be joining us here on the East Coast in October to deliver her SQL Server 2005/2008 Internals and Query Tuning seminar. This is, to my knowledge, the most advanced public SQL Server course to be offered in the Boston area in the last 5 years, and this is the first time that Kalen has ever taught in the area. I hope that some of you will be able to take advantage of this rare opportunity to really take your SQL Server skills to the next level.

The course location is the Microsoft Technology Center in Waltham, MA, and the course will run from Monday October 12 through Friday October 16. You can get more information about the course from the Web site, but following is an overview:

This is an advanced 5-day course designed for advanced SQL Server professionals. The course includes extensive demonstrations that illustrate the details of SQL Server internals as well as tuning techniques. This course will be presented on SQL Server 2008 and cover features specific to that version, but most of the information is relevant to SQL Server 2005 as well.

This 5-day intensive seminar was developed by one of the world's leading experts in SQL Server internals. Topics to be covered include the following:

SQL Server Architecture and Metadata
Physical Storage Structures
Index Design and Tuning
Query Processing and Query Plans
Optimization and Recompilation
Concurrency Control: Locking, Blocking and Row Level Versioning
Query Tips and Techniques
Troubleshooting Tools

The course includes extensive demonstrations that illustrate the details of SQL Server internals as well as performance tuning techniques. A reference CD including all of the demonstration scripts as well as dozens of whitepapers and useful tools will be distributed at the end of the week.

If you would like to register, you can do so on the registration page. If you have any questions, feel free to write a message here, contact me via my blog, or via the e-mail address on the Boston SQL Training front page.