Data Education: Food For Your Brain

Adam Machanic — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:20:00 GMT

I've written here before about Data Education, the training company I recently launched, building off my previous company Boston SQL Training. Things have moved along quickly, and I and the rest of the Data Education staff are very happy to announce a jam-packed fall and winter course roster. We'll be announcing even more classes later in the year, but I wanted to give you a run-down of what we're currently offering. (Note that several of these are currently in the Early Bird stage, which means there are steep discounts already available. For any that aren't, I'd like to offer SQLBlog readers a nice shiny $400 discount. Just enter the code SQLBLOG when registering.)

Without further ado:

The BI Master: TEO LACHEV

Teo will be in Boston next month (September 19-23) sharing his impressive and encyclopedic knowledge of all things SSAS and PowerPivot. Considering he's literally written the books on the subject, this is one BI class you don't want to miss. (Class to include discussion and labs on OLAP, data mining, PowerPivot apps, data analysis, and best practices, plus much more.)

The Entity Framework Guru: JULIE LERMAN

This is one boot camp you can't afford to miss, plus world-renowned .NET expert Julie Lerman won't make you do push-ups. (I don't think.) Instead, she'll spend five days (October 3-7) telling you everything you need to know about Entity Framework 4.1, including CodeFirst. This one will be somewhat intensive and very, very thorough. (Class to include discussion of Code First A-Z, E.F 4.1 DbContext/DbSet, EF in the cloud, EF performance tricks, plus much more.)

The PowerShell Virtuoso: ALLEN WHITE

You'd have to live under a rock to not know that PowerShell is the thing to know these days. We're bringing in Allen White for a three-day course (November 14-16) to teach you Everything You Ever Needed to Know About PowerShell in a SQL Server World: writing scripts, managing scripts, and managing your environment. No knowledge of PowerShell required! (Class to include discussion and labs on SMO, backup and recovery, automating, and importing/exporting CSV and XML files, plus much more.)

The T-SQL Super Star: ITZIK BEN-GAN

Yep, we got him: Itzik Ben-Gan is coming to the East Coast (January 23-27) to present his wildly popular Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming, and Tuning class. Itzik will talk logical query processing. He'll talk islands and gaps. He'll talk nested iterations using recursive queries. And then he’ll talk about so, so much more. There's a reason he sells out classes and fills rooms at conferences, you know. (Class to include discussion and labs on query tuning, aggregating and pivoting data, TOP and APPLY, programmable objects, plus much more.)

Also, I wanted to point out a few other things we're doing at Data Education, all of which I think my fellow SQL fanatics might appreciate:

Twitter: We have a very active Twitter stream going (@dataeducation). Every weekday, we tweet the best in database blogs and articles. And sometimes we throw in a Chuck Norris joke. Just because.

Blog: The Data Education blog has been up and running for a while. I wrote most of the initial posts (including such fun as bitemporal data and assigning server-level permissions using module signing, but we have guest posts and Important SQL People profiles coming up very shortly. Plus we just posted a rather intriguing behind-the-scenes look at Denali; apparently size does matter. (Interested in becoming a guest blogger? Get in touch!)

Question of the Week: In light of the fact that a Friday is made even better by a $25 Amazon gift card, we've launched our new Question of the Week feature. Each Monday, we post a brainteaser. You get until Thursday at midnight to prove your riddle know-how. The questions have been fairly easy so far. Prepare for much trickier challenges. (Yes, that's a threat!)

Enjoy, and we'll see you in class!

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