SQL Server Professionals Gain High-end Training in the UK
QA, the UK’s largest independent provider of training and consulting, and Solid Quality Learning, an association of SQL Server experts from around the world, today announce a unique partnership to provide high-end SQL Server training to professionals throughout the UK.
Responding to a growing demand for SQL Server skills as the launch of next generation of the technology, Yukon, approaches, QA will offer Solid Quality Learning courses to clients at QA centres across the UK.
“SQL Server is growing in importance in the market and is moving into the enterprise space where companies will need significant skills initiatives,” commented Justin Turner, Head of Future Products and Technologies at QA. “Only by coming to QA will UK organisations access high-end training from the world’s leading experts in SQL Server”.
QA and Solid Quality Learning will offer two exclusive streams of advanced SQL Server training:
high-end courses on existing SQL Sever technology that extend beyond Microsoft Official Curriculum. The seminars or hands-on courses focus on real-life application and can be customised to meet the specific requirements of organisations
a programme of training for early adopters of SQL Server technology. The world’s first Yukon training courses will be available from February 2004
“The SQL Server market in Europe is very important for Microsoft, and we welcome this agreement between QA and Solid Quality Learning to provide unparalleled high-end training to our customers in the UK and the Republic of Ireland,” said Eric Brown, Microsoft Product Manager for SQL Server. “Solid Quality Learning is a key resource which Microsoft relies on to provide SQL Server training and mentoring resources to our high-end SQL Server customers around the world.”
Solid Quality Learning instructors are the leading authorities on SQL Server. With an unprecedented 10 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) for SQL Server, Solid Quality Learning mentors teach Microsoft’s own engineers and write official Microsoft SQL Server white papers, conference materials and other documentation.
“Yukon will have a massive impact and professionals in the UK now have the unique opportunity to get ahead of the game,” commented, Fernando Guerrero, CEO and Principal Mentor at Solid Quality Learning. “QA is the UK’s leading provider of technical training and, for us, the only choice as a long-term partner”.
The first course, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 High Availability, will run at QA’s London training centre from 9-11 December. For further information about courses offered, visit: www.qa.com, call: 0870 90 600 90 or email: [email protected]
About Solid Quality Learning
Solid Quality Learning is a Microsoft Certified Partner which specialises in training and mentoring for the SQL Server community. Solid Quality Learning mentors have written many of the official White Papers that come with the ‘Yukon’ Beta 1 Readiness Kit, and the ‘Yukon’ labs that have run at various Microsoft events around the world during 2003. In total, the organisation’s mentors have nearly 150 years of experience with database technology, they have presented over 200 sessions at conferences over the past two years, and they have written over 600 articles for SQL Server Magazine. Solid Quality Learning mentors will present at SQL Server Devcon 2004 in London, 23-27 February 2004: www.devweek.com/sql. Ten of Solid Quality Learning’s mentors are SQL Server MVPs, and five of them have been involved in writing Microsoft Official Curriculum or internal Microsoft courseware. www.solidqualitylearning.com