We’ve just received word that one of our original sponsors, Red Gate Software, who is joining us again on SQL Cruise Alaska is providing year licenses for two

Our First Search the Ship Contest in 2010

of their best suites of products for the winners of the Red Gate SQL Cruise Alaska 2012 Search the Ship Contest.  As is tradition on the first night of the SQL Cruise we will be sending the Cruisers and their guests all over the ship on a photo scavenger hunt.  This accomplishes three things:  it builds teamwork, it allows everyone to become familiar with the ship on the first night, and it helps to get everyone to start interacting with those they’ve just met; oh, and it’s fun too!  Our Cruisers and their guests in the past have been on the hunt for guys in shorts and black socks, strange couples in Hawaiian shirts (even on the Alaska cruises), and have been driven to hop on water slides and in hot tubs with their clothes on to win prizes and glory on night one.  Alaska in 2012 should be no different.

Thank you Red Gate Software for continuing to sponsor SQL Cruise and for all you do to foster education and fun in the SQL Community and for all those fabulous tools you provide to make our lives as DBAs and Developers so much easier.