http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley/archive/2007/02/07/my-first-solid-quality-course-is-scheduled.aspxIf you're in Melbourne during the last week of March and want to learn about how to effectively write queries for SQL Server, then this course is for you. The course was written by Itzik Ben-Gan , who is one of the legends in the SQL Server world (andenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley/archive/2007/02/07/my-first-solid-quality-course-is-scheduled.aspx#569024Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:19:44 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:569024Rob Farley<p>Thanks Jonathan!</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=569024" width="1" height="1">http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley/archive/2007/02/07/my-first-solid-quality-course-is-scheduled.aspx#568519Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:57:38 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:568519Jonathan Parker<p>Thanks Rob. I hope the year goes well at SQL.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=568519" width="1" height="1">http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley/archive/2007/02/07/my-first-solid-quality-course-is-scheduled.aspx#568042Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:03:15 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:568042Rob Farley<p>Well, this is very much an 'intro' course, but it actually covers a lot of quite advanced topics. If you look down the syllabus, you'll see things like ranking functions, correlated subqueries, derived tables, CTEs, the OUTPUT clause, deadlocks, cursors, XQuery... </p> <p>So you might find that it quickly ramps up to the kind of course you're more interested in. Although... it's not the Advanced T-SQL course, which goes far deeper into how to solve specific types of problems and suggests that you have a full year's experience of writing queries before you take it on.</p> <p>Why not give SolidQuality a call and discuss it with them? Explain that you're concerned that it might be too basic, and see what they say.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=568042" width="1" height="1">http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley/archive/2007/02/07/my-first-solid-quality-course-is-scheduled.aspx#567735Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:04:27 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:567735Jonathan Parker<p>What will be covered in this course? I did a SQL course at Uni which covered the basics of relational data and T-SQL so I'm wondering if this is too basic for me.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=567735" width="1" height="1">