Give my regards.
Well, just got the great news yesterday that I won’t be going to SQL Pass or SQL Server Connections this year. Seems that the company training bucks have been slotted elsewhere, or so I’m told, and at this point I’m not looking to go on my nickel. Actually I was going to try the latter this year since I’ve never been, and was looking forward to Las Vegas and a vacation out there for a week. Also had invited two friends to go as well and they were jazzed about the trip. Trip cancelled, do not pass go, and do not collect $200.
November is becoming a great month for training, as noted by Dan’s blog, with several training seminars on the docket. Just today, Steve Jones of SQLServerCentral.com posted a commentary on the ROI of attending SQL Pass as an effort to show that the dollars-spent actually amount to something of value to both the attendee and those back at the office. I was looking forward to SQL Connections this time since I have been to SQL Pass before, and I also am an avid SQL Server Mag reader and wanted to join those folks.
Training for me is all about learning other technologies for the most part. I have a nice network with plenty of software to learn most anything that comes along in SQL Server (on my own time). I also teach so I dig into the new great stuff as well; it’s the other stuff, such as Hyper-V, Azure and cloud computing, .Net, and others, some of the things that I don’t spend the majority of my days working on where training is a big value, if for no other reason than to save research time doing all of it myself.
Hopefully the next gig that comes up at my current place of employment doesn’t require any of the stuff that I was hoping to learn at SQL Server Connections this year. Someone let me know how the conference was.
Lee
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Wonder if they would have sent me if I were speaking there this year?
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