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New Training Event: SQL Cruise 2014

Today we mark the announcement of our 2014 SQL Cruise schedule.  We’ll be returning once again to the Caribbean in January 2014 for our first 8-day cruise.  Full details are available on our 2014 Events Page.

Norwegian Cruise Line Massive Sale Through 2/15/2013

Norwegian Cruise Line is providing free room upgrades, on-board credit, and 50% off deposits through 2/15/2013. (details here)  This means you can reserve your spot on a future SQL Cruise (Alaska 2013 or Caribbean 2014) for as little as $125.00!

SQL Cruise Offers a Valentine’s Day Gift to the Community

SQL Cruise will sweeten the deal as well and allow you to place a deposit on your SQL Cruise training fee rather than pay the full amount now.  Through 2/15/2013 you can place a $500 deposit on the $1,395 SQL Cruise training fee and won’t need to pay the balance until 75 days prior to your cruising.  This is good for both of our future SQL Cruises for new registrations only.

Just contact our dedicated cruise consultant at NCL, Alex Gonzalez (details on our Registration Page) to secure your stateroom and get your booking number.  Once you’ve that information complete our registration form and you’re on your way to joining us!  Use Discount Code “VALENTINE” for the $500 deposit through 2/15/2013.

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Winner of the 2013 Caribbean Landlubber SQL Sentry Hairy Execution Plan

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Thank you All Who Participated

Landlubber BadgeSQL Sentry and SQL Cruise would like to extend their thanks for those who were willing to share a bit of their pain with us in our first SQL Sentry Hairy Execution Plan Contest staged exclusively for our landlubber supporters of SQL Cruise.  It was a tough contest to judge with so many fine plans submitted (and by fine we really mean awful!)

In the end, we were left with two submissions that really stood out as utterly hairy and truly horrible in comparison to all the others.  The SQL Professionals responsible for those plans are:

  • Alan Dykes
  • Dvinge Morten

Unlike SQL Cruise where we take fifteen Cruisers on an adventure of their SQL Career there can be only one winner of our SQL Sentry Hairy Execution Plans Landlubber Contest and that honor goes to Dvinge Morten!

What Makes the Plan So Hairy?

The quotes from our judges sum up our reasoning for choosing him above all other entrants:

At first I thought Dvinge’s was just complex because there were a ton of cursors (most, if not all, probably shouldn’t be cursors). But the plan for the last Insert (sort by cost in the statements tree) is pretty impressive. 43 billion rows.

– Aaron Bertrand, SQL Sentry

I like the aspects of Dvinge’s because there were certain steps in his execution plan that showed off some of Plan Explorer Pro’s features a little better, but they were low-level things such as fatter lines on the plan view, stronger differences when flipping the lines between CPU and IO, and so forth.  Dvinge’s also showed off the other tabs in Plan Explorer Pro very nicely – plan tree, top operations, join diagram, etc.

– Kevin Kline, SQL Sentry

To the Victor Goes the Spoils

Dvinge will receive a single seat license of Plan Explorer Pro! This license prize has a $295 retail value. While the free version is great, the Pro version takes that greatness to a new level. Pro Version features include:

  • A Multi-Tab Interface
  • Wait Statistics Information
  • Full Query Call Stack
  • Open *.xdl Deadlock Files

Full details on these features are available at the SQL Server Plan Explorer website.
 

Do you want to get more SQL Server training with a side of free consulting, professional development, networking, and rejuvenation? Then join me and other leaders in the SQL Server Community (including Buck Woody, Aaron Bertrand, Kevin Kline, Stacia Misner, and Allen White) in 2013 for SQL Cruise 2013 where we will cover not just the technical side of SQL Server, Powershell, and Business Intelligence, but also the aspects of your skill set that make you a more valuable resource for your company and yourself.

 

Our On Board Hairy Execution Plan Contest Winner

Of course we also held this contest on board SQL Cruise Caribbean 2013 for those who joined us. There was a very audible groan when our winner’s plan came up on the screen and it was a near-unanimous winner as chosen by all Cruisers, Staff, and Technical Leads on SQL Cruise Caribbean 2013. That lucky winner was Carlos Chacon!

We’d like to congratulate Carlos and also would like to take time to direct you to his blog post about his experiences aboard his first SQL Cruise as well as let you know he is helping to organize the SQL Saturday Richmond Virginia event scheduled for March 09, 2013.

Kevin Kline of SQL Sentry demonstrates Performance Advisor on SQL Cruise Caribbean 2013.
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SQL Sentry Hairy Execution Plans Landlubber Winner to be Announced 2/12/13

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The Participation was Overwhelming

Landlubber BadgeSQL Sentry and SQL Cruise were slated to announce the winner of their Hairy Execution Plan Contest on 2/7/13.  However, due to the number of submissions received we’re going to have to go back to the island and have a few more boat drinks, huddle over the campfire and have a few more boat drinks, perhaps have a few more boat drinks, consult the shaman that lives in the cave on the side of the mountain, and then narrow the choices down…

…or we could run all the submissions through SQL Sentry’s FREE  SQL Sentry Plan Explorer Tool and get the results back even quicker!

Upon further thought, we’re going to take the weekend, use SQL Sentry Plan Explorer, have some boat drinks and announce the winner here on Tuesday, February 12, 2013.  See you all then!

 

 

 

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Hey Landlubbers! Win a Free License for SQL Sentry Plan Explorer Pro

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The Origins of the Hairy Execution Plan Contest

Landlubber BadgeSQL Sentry and SQL Cruise are bringing back the Hairy Execution Plan Contest again for our next round of SQL Cruises and those Landlubbers who are not able to join us on the SQL Cruise are now able to play at home as well.  Some of you new to SQL Cruise news may not be quite sure about what a “Hairy Execution Plan” Contest is though.  It’s based upon something that is not nearly as pretty as SQL Cruise, SQL Sentry Plan Explorer, or most things for that matter.

Those of you who have experienced the uniquely American concept of the College Spring Break know what we’re talking about.

The Hairy Back Contest

Yes, the phrase that strikes fear and revulsion into the hearts and minds of any woman and most men who have seen the sights of large, hairy men slathered with cheap suntan oil and placed on display for all to see.  They then cap off the least attractive of any runway walk with a cannonball dive into a pool.

Hairiest Man wins.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) until genetics change or Wookiees find their way into our singles bars and online dating services these Hairy Back Contests, while open to all genders are generally dominated by one.

Our take on the Hairy Back Contest is far more civilized, has been evenly won by all genders, and can be accomplished without the need to grease-up or get wet (though each SQL Professional has their own way of getting through the day.)

The On-Board Edition Rules

Those who have attended one of our SQL Cruises already know how this works and the rules are quite simple:

  1. Download the FREE SQL Sentry Plan Explorer Tool from SQL Sentry.  Did I say free?  I certainly did.  SQL Sentry Plan Explorer is SQL Sentry’s free application that takes the conventional native graphical execution plans that are available inside Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and turns them on the heads.  The readability of the graphic are much improved and you can sort the operations by many different factors – cost, CPU, memory consumption and more.
  2. Use SQL Sentry Plan Explorer to capture the graphical execution plan from the nastiest of all your Microsoft SQL Server queries.  If you’re not sure of what is your nastiest query I highly recommend using the Dynamic Management Objects – specifically sys.dm_exec_query_stats.
  3. Save the query plan from SQL Sentry Plan Explorer as a .sqlplan file and submit your entry via attachment in an email directed to sqlcruise@sqlsentry.net.  Be sure to include your Full Name and Company Name in the email.  Submitting an entry implicitly allows SQL Sentry and SQL Cruise to use your name, twitter handle and your company’s name in promotion of this event.  If you prefer to not expose your company name please simply state that in your email.  Only the graphical execution plan will be presented by SQL Sentry in the announcements of submission and the winner  – end user data is not exposed in this process.  Also, your contact information will not be shared with other entities.
  4. Submissions are due before we board SQL Cruise Caribbean 2013.  This means midnight, 1/25/2013 Eastern Timezone.
  5. Your submission will be judged by Tim Ford of B-Side Consulting/SQL Cruise and Kevin Kline of SQL Sentry aboard the SQL Cruise; likely while sipping cool drinks in the warm sun.  (Yes we’re rubbing it in because if you really wanted to participate there are still a few seats available aboard SQL Cruise Caribbean 2013.)
  6. SQL Sentry and SQL Cruise will present the top contenders for Hairiest Landlubber Execution Plan once we return from SQL Cruise Caribbean 2013 and will announce the winner on February 7, 2013 here on SQLCruise.com.

 

The Fabulous Prize – For the Landlubber Edition

The declared winner will receive a single seat license of Plan Explorer Pro!  This license prize has a $295 retail value.  While the free version is great, the Pro version takes that greatness to a new level.  Pro Version features include:

  • A Multi-Tab Interface
  • Wait Statistics Information
  • Full Query Call Stack
  • Open *.xdl Deadlock Files

Full details on these features are available at the SQL Server Plan Explorer website.

The Fabulous Prize – For Those Attending SQL Cruise Caribbean

As if the sun, free SQL Server consulting by leaders in the industry, relaxation, in-depth SQL and Powershell training, and networking wasn’t enough incentive to come on SQL Cruise, SQL Sentry is making it even better.  Those attending SQL Cruise who submit a Hairy Execution Plan will have a chance at winning a license of their Power Suite with Fragmentation Manager.  But don’t take it from me, here is what Nick Harshbarger, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at SQL Sentry has to say:

SQL Sentry is providing a full license of SQL Sentry Power Suite as the contest prize.  The Power Suite bundles together their two award-wining software tools Performance Advisor® and Event Manager® into a revolutionary performance monitoring and tuning tool for Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2012. The software provides unparalleled insight, awareness and control over the true source of SQL Server performance issues. Plus SQL Sentry is including their newest product – Fragmentation Manager, which provides fully integrated point-and-click SQL Server defragmentation. Fragmentation Manager helps you to make good decisions about how and when to defragment, and then defrags indexes faster than ever before via support for multiple concurrent operations. This license prize has a $3,300 retail value.

So, sun, sand, SQL, free consulting, training and at least a 1-in-15 chance of winning a software package for troubleshooting SQL performance valued at $3,300.00.  Why aren’t you going on SQL Cruise?

 

SQL Cruise Caribbean 2013 Detailed Schedule
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SQL Cruise Caribbean 2013 Detailed Schedule

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Just What Does Happen Aboard A SQL Cruise?

Until now the details surrounding the actual events aboard SQL Cruise Caribbean 2013 have been shared only with those attendees (Cruisers) and Technical Leads who are on the Norwegian Epic with us this year. However, we have been fielding a great number of questions about just what does happen on a SQL Cruise. Be it the training events, team-building activities, or free consulting time (we call this our “Office Hours.”) In order to address these questions and give insight into just what the typical week aboard SQL Cruise looks like we are publishing the schedule we’ll be following on this year’s Caribbean training week.

It’s Not Too Late to Experience SQL Cruise

We still have 3 seats open for the Caribbean event and it’s my understanding that there are staterooms still available aboard the NCL Epic. Our personal cruise consultant at Norwegian Cruise Line, Alex Gonzalez, is fully-aware of the availability for both the staterooms and our classrooms. If you’re able to get to South Florida on 1/26/2013 you can still join us! For details on the specific SQL Cruises offered in 2013, including itineraries, cost, and dates please visit our 2013 Cruises page.  Abstract information on the sessions offered for each SQL Cruise in 2013 are available here.

Furthermore, we do have another SQL Cruise in 2013 departing from Seattle with experiences in Alaska and Canada. Explore the site for more details on that event. There are still seats available in that session as well.

Are You Adventurous and Looking for More than Just Sitting in a Classroom for a Week of Training

If you’re adventurous and are ready to take the next step in your SQL Server, Powershell, or Business Intelligence training (or just want to take advantage of free consulting time with leaders in the industry while getting rejuvenated at the same time) you can jump directly to our registration page and find out how you can join us in 2013 aboard SQL Cruise.

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Caribbean SQL Cruise Agenda 2013

Download our 2013 Caribbean Agenda PDF

 

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