The Moral of Story
You can watch the most popular SQL Server – TSQL course on Pluralsight On-Demand for FREE for the next 48 hours. It starts NOW!
The Story
Learning is always difficult. After learning how to apply your knowledge, learning in real life is even more difficult. Technology is moving faster than the speed of light and new technologies are always emerging – this is now the reality of the new technology world. Between all of this, I personally have very little time to learn new technology. I do not like eBooks (this statement warrants a whole new blog posts – some other time), I prefer regular books. It is becoming more and more difficult to carry around the books and read them with passion. It happened to me once that by the time I finished the book, there was a new version of the product out in the market.
Recently I noticed that I am reading more blogs than books. Blogs are great but they are not structured. Structured learning is the key when one wants to understand technology properly. From experience I have learned that watching videos at my convenience (on-demand) and following the labs along with the video is way easier. A good teacher cannot be replaced by 1,000 books. I find that I can learn fastest using online tutorial videos that are well structured.
All the attendees of the technology mega-event in India got free passes from Pluralsight On-Demand training. I watched two Pluralsight courses online and I found they are well structured and have lots of supporting material (lab, scripts, ppts). When I reported my good feedback to Pluralsight, they offered 48 hours free access to their MOST popular SQL Server – TSQL course, exclusively for SQLAuthority.com readers. I cannot let this offer pass when it can help so many of my readers.
The Beginning of the Real World
Try out the SQL Server – TSQL course right away as it is freely available for the next 48 hours only. Let me know your feedback about the course. This course is for every developer who uses SQL Server in their applications. It covers the fundamentals of using SQL Server from T-SQL to the CLR, to automating processing with SQL Server Integration services.
UPDATE: You do not need login or create account to watch T-SQL course. Just go to SQL Server – TSQL and click on links.
Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
16 Comments. Leave new
I shared some of the free passes with my peers yesterday.
Good news for Andriod users. PluralSight has recently released the Andriod App which will allow you to view their Training Video’s from your phone. Guys, who are travelling for long hours in Company Buses (in Bangalore traffic) can really make well use of their time :) NOTE: You would require a good Internet connection!
Hi Pinal,
Thanks for sharing but I am not able to watch videos. Please help.
Thanks
Sudhir
Nice tips Kamlesh!
Hello,
I do not understand why you do not like eBooks? I love the eBooks (or any electronic literature on my iPad) and I usually take the longest public transportation route to work so I can read.
And also, I disagree that blogs are not structured. I believe that your blog as well as mine (www.sqlconcept.com) are quite well structured and anyone can learn a lot from blogs, if they pay attention. books are the theory and the blogs are the experience – not always the same thing, right?
I will look at the training video later on.
Thanks for sharing!
Feodor
What are the credentials to login?
Thanks
Excellent Videos Pinal
You do so much for community. Hats Off to you.
Hi Pinal,
Excellent videos thanks you very much for sharing knowledge
Thanks & Regards
Siva
Thanks Pinal!
Pluralsight is really gem and good to find. I did not know abou them.
Thanks for sharing! PluralSight videos are really good. Watched couple of other courses in past and found them to be well structured and focused.
Is it possible to extend the free access period? I didn’t have time to watch it earlier.
Excellent vidoe. Thank you so much Pinal. But I could watch only one video as I came to know about them very late. Is it possible to extend the free access period.
Is there any way out to watch the videos now? I missed them :( :(
Any help would be really appreciated.