SQL Sentry Announces Exclusive Master Immersion Training Sponsorship
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 8, 2011 - SQL Sentry, Inc., the developer of award-winning software for Microsoft SQL Server, announced today their exclusive sponsorship of the first two SQLskills Master Immersion Training events.
SQLskills.com, run by renowned experts Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp, is the premier provider of approved training for the SQL Server Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) exam, and has been deeply involved with the re-architecting of the overall MCM certification throughout 2010.
The 5-day Master Immersion Event on Internals and Performance will take place February 21 - 25, 2011, followed by the Master Immersion Event on Performance Tuning scheduled for March 14 - 18, 2011. Both events will be held in Dallas, TX at Dallas Marriott Suites Market Center.
"We are thrilled to have the support of SQL Sentry on these upcoming Master Immersion Training events," said Kimberly Tripp, Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Microsoft Regional Director and SQLskills founder. "SQL Sentry has been pushing the envelope on the SQL Server tools markets for several years now and we are pleased to have them sponsor our efforts to extend MCM level education out to the SQL Server community.
We are huge fans of their Plan Explorer product, using and recommending it every day. We admire their devotion to busy DBAs everywhere by making this product free to the SQL Server community."
"We are pleased to be the exclusive sponsor of the first two SQLskills Master Immersion events. Several members of our team have attended previous Immersion events and we have a deep appreciation for the extraordinary training they received," said Greg Gonzalez, President and CEO of SQL Sentry. "We share the goal of helping individuals to improve SQL Server performance through greater understanding. Our software gives DBAs unique insight into the issues affecting SQL Server performance. The SQLskills team works with some of the largest and most complex SQL Server environments in the world, and their ability to educate individuals on tuning and troubleshooting is unmatched. Supporting this event was an easy decision."
About SQLskills
SQLskills.com is owned and run by world-renowned SQL Server experts Kimberly L. Tripp, Paul S. Randal and Brent Ozar.
The triple threat team has over 40 years combined experience working with all sizes of SQL Server databases, in organizations as diverse as Fortune-100 companies to small, single-database businesses. Together they teach the storage internals, performance tuning, database design, database maintenance, IO, virtualization, high availability and disaster recovery sections of Microsoft's most advanced course - Microsoft Certified Master - SQL Server. For more information, visit www.sqlskills.com.
About SQL Sentry®
SQL Sentry, Inc. delivers software products that optimize the performance of Microsoft® SQL Server® environments.
SQL Sentry Performance Advisor for SQL Server delivers an advanced performance dashboard with relevant Windows and SQL Server metrics in a single view along with detailed insight of heavy SQL, blocking, deadlocks, and disk bottlenecks. SQL Sentry Performance Advisor® for Analysis Services provides unparalleled insight into Analysis Services performance, including bottlenecks related to memory, storage systems, aggregation usage, queries and processing. SQL Sentry Event Manager® is the ultimate scheduling, alerting and response system for managing SQL Server jobs and other events that impact performance.
Contact
Nick Harshbarger,
SQL Sentry VP Sales and Marketing,
(704) 895-6241,
nharshbarger@sqlsentry.net
