Dennis makes an excellent point I've completely forgotten about. The
"SIG" (special interest group). I have a MS regional office in my
neighborhood and a few years back attended many sql server meeting. They
were fantastic. The were once a month run by MS employees in MS office.
The meetings were usually a full working demonstration on a particular
technology, complete with documentation and working examples!
The meetings were free and I actually felt they were worth at least
$50 per evening, excellent training. Shortly I got fully pulled into
Oracle, so the group has fallen off my radar.
I would suggest searching for MS SIG's in your area. Interesting enough
it seems the one in my area is has disbanded. Must have been the 30
pizzas they would provide for the group each month<g>
In my digging around I came across an interesting link; Search the page
for sql server
http://www.yukonxml.com/UserGroups/
hth Bob
Dennis Williams wrote:
Stephen,
I reluctantly agree with your consultant. At most organizations, SQL Server is becoming too vital to the company to simply be ignored. And despite our best efforts, not all applications will get migrated to Oracle. Experienced Oracle DBAs can bring
-- "Oracle error messages being what they are, do not highlight the correct cause of fault, but will identify some other error located close to where the real fault lies."
