***There's been a change to the timing of this event.  It now runs from 9:30-13:00 with registration starting at 9:00*** 

Free training on Thursday 22nd January on SQL for Oracle DBAs!

It is a half day of training taking place in Dublin the afternoon of January 22nd. See here for details and how to register.

The objective of this training is to give an experienced Oracle DBA a basis for understanding SQL Server and an understanding of the key differences between SQL Server and Oracle together with a basic knowledge of how to administer an installation of SQL Server.

Agenda

  • Why SQL Server and not Oracle
  • Structural Differences
  • Getting Started with SQL
  • Day to Day Tasks
  • Monitoring
  • Security
  • Advanced topics
    • High Availability
    • Migrations

Register now

Please Note:  Event starts at 1.30pm, Lunch will be provided from 1pm

Speaker Bio

  • Kevin Ashby joined Microsoft EMEA in January 2005 as an Enterprise Technology Strategist in the CATM team focused on any database related issues.
  • He has been involved with database platforms for more than 20 years and has performing many roles including development, DBA, technical design and account management. In recent years Kevin has worked as a infrastructure and database architect designing numerous database infrastructure solutions for both high and low end systems. Many of the designs have been for 99.999% availably systems including designing for true fault tolerance and high performance
  • Kevin’s Oracle background starts with Oracle 5 as a developer, and he became a DBA in Oracle 6, designing infrastructures solutions with Oracle 8 which included 99.999% availability via operating system clusters and Oracle parallel server, running through to 9iRAC and 10g Grid for in house developed solutions and Oracle based commercial applications included Oracle Applications, Oracle Collaboration Suite, 9iAS, 10gAS. He has even talked at OracleWorld a number of times and has been involved with the Oracle community in the UK for many years.

See you next Thursday

Dave

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