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Finished a week-long training course in SQL Server 2000 today. It was really more based around performance optimization and available facilities than a deeper look at Transact-SQL or ER diagramming. Still, managed to learn a good bit and found a bunch of things I may actually start using when I design databases and whatnot. (The goodness of views and triggers and stuff.) As a bonus I got a certificate saying Yes I Did Show Up For Class. Handy and dandy! Actually considering seeing how much it would be to become a MSCDBA, and then seeing how much it would be to do it for Oracle. I kinda like training more than school, simply because the stuff you learn you can apply right now. There are, of course, two sides to everything though.
The UofM beat Oral Roberts today (no surprise) so we didn’t lose in the first round. Reason to celebrate! We should win the next game too. Hurrah for basketball!