The Nordic countries are some of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. Erika and I are scheduling a few trips over there in 2020, and the first one I can announce is SQL Saturday Gothenburg and SQL Saturday Oslo.

I’m teaching my one-day workshop before each event: Performance Tuning in 21 Demos. You’re a developer or DBA who wants to tune indexes and queries to make your application go faster. You don’t like learning by watching slides or reading white papers – you want to jump right into the code and see what happens. You’re the kind of person who loves watching YouTube videos that start with, “Hold my beer and watch this.” Attendees get a year of my Consultant Toolkit.

These pre-cons are an awesome deal for one day of in-person SQL Server training, and they usually sell out. I’m announcing these a year in advance so that those of you who want to travel can schedule it in advance:

• Register for May 8 in Stockholm
• Register for August 28 in Oslo
• Register for September 4 in Gothenburg

Erika and I are making a big vacation out of it, flying in a week early to take a Hurtigruten cruise around Norway and taking the Bergensbanen train, reputed to be one of the most beautiful train rides in Europe.

You can even watch the entire seven hour journey courtesy of the slow TV movement, something I’ve found really wonderful lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VYVjR_nwE

See you in Scandinavia!