Category Archives: Announcement

Bringing back the discounted price of $699 for this weekend only

In honor of the long July 4th weekend approaching, we are again offering the discounted price for all who sign up between June 28th and July 5th.  This reduces the price for our September 22nd-24th SQL Excursion to Napa, CA … Continue reading

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SQLskills has signed up as our next amazing sponsor

I am so happy to be able to announce that SQLskills has signed up to be a sponsor for our Napa SQL Excursion.  SQLskills is the premier SQL Server consulting company, powered by Paul Randal (blog | twitter) and Kimberly … Continue reading

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Red Gate has signed on as a sponsor for our Napa SQL Excursion. #redgate

I am thrilled to announce that Red Gate Software, makers of the incredible awesome SQL Toolbelt (as well as lots of other great software), have signed on as a sponsor for our Friday night dinner for our Napa SQL Excursion.  … Continue reading

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I am pleased to announce Confio is a SQL Excursions sponsor

I am please to announce that Confio has come on board as a sponsor for our Napa SQL Excursion.  If you don’t know Confio, and you haven’t tried their Ignite monitoring software for SQL Server then you really should.  It … Continue reading

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How SQL Excursions came to be

Every company has a story about how they got started.  Some are interesting, some are surprisingly standard.  Here’s how the company known as SQL Excursions came to be. Back in November 2010 Kris (twitter) and I were having dinner (at … Continue reading

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Be sure to sign up for the SQL Excursions Insiders mailing list

Signing up for our SQL Excursions Insiders mailing list does come with some perks, the most important of which will be that you’ll get early announcements about our upcoming Excursions, giving you the ability to sign up for the Excursions … Continue reading

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And our first sponsor for our first SQL Excursion is … Murach Books

I’m pleased to announce that we have our first sponsor for our first (yet to be announced) SQL Excursion. Murach Books will be sending over books from their catalog for our attendees. Their catalog is a little smaller than some … Continue reading

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Future SQL Excursion locations

Ever since we announced SQL Excursions, people have been bringing up a LOT of really great ideas on where we could hold a future excursion.  So far these have been coming through email, Twitter, phone calls, etc.  In order to put … Continue reading

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Announcing SQL Excursions!

After months of planning, I’m proud to announce the launch of SQL Excursions.  Founded by Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Master Denny Cherry, SQL Excursions is designed to provide fun, educational SQL Server training events.  The excursions will be held … Continue reading

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Great new info coming soon…

Keep an eye on this space, for some awesome information coming soon.

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