SQL Fascination

I attended the SQL Immersion event last year in Dublin and can honestly say that it was the best training course I have ever attended. The level of detail is phenomenal and the interaction with Paul and Kim is superb. I can not recommend the course heavily enough and anyone who is serious about SQL should make the effort to attend one of these, I would even go as far as to say fund it yourself if you have to. Prodata have not only managed to get Paul and Kim back to run it again, but have also got 2 additional master class courses being scheduled as well. I have a feeling these must be closer to including more information / material from the SQL MCM course, which would be superb, but I will have to check whether the bank balance can handle doing them.

The Immersion event is split again into two tracks, DBA and Developer although both sides of that fence benefit from having a good in-depth understanding of the other, so I would ignore the distinction and go for the full ‘Immersion’, there is no reason that a DBA shouldn’t understand indexes and index tuning in depth, or that a developer shouldn’t have a good understanding of the transaction log and internal structure within SQL. I did the full course before and spent most evenings doing even more stuff and using the day’s material to find out new things, many of which have become topics that I have written about.

Early registration to the courses attracts a 15% discount, but using the promotion code SQLH you will get a 20% discount instead. On the full Immersion course that is a further ~100 euros off the price, which can’t be bad.

The Immersion event is running from the 28th June to 1st July, and registration is here.

The two additional master classes are being run the week after, and these are advertised as being material that is not on the Immersion course, but as mentioned – I’m not entirely sure what that is, and given how much detail is on the immersion course, that is going to have to be some very deep internals stuff.

The performance master class is being run on the 5th and 6th of July, registration is here, whilst the DR master class registration is here. Where’s that cheque book?