{"id":364,"date":"2009-10-10T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2009-10-10T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T18:46:44","slug":"sql-universitycomputer-lab-at-sqlserverbeta-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/2009\/10\/sql-universitycomputer-lab-at-sqlserverbeta-com\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL University:Computer Lab at SQLServerbeta.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon students, this is just a quick announcement to let you know that SQL University (sort of) is offering a computer lab for students to cut their teeth on SQL 2008 technology. I say sort of because this lab is actually offered via a partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/sqlpass.org\">PASS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumasp.com\/\">Maximum ASP<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/\">DELL Computers<\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlserverbeta.com\">http:\/\/www.sqlserverbeta.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>The labs offer up a virtual sandbox environment where you can discover and practice everything you learn here in a dedicated hosted environment! Here&#8217;s the lab description:<\/p>\n<div style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\">The beta team has created a Microsoft\u00ae Hyper-V\u2122 based private cloud to host individual instances of Microsoft\u00ae SQL Server\u00ae 2008 on which you can perform your experiments.\u00a0 You will have access to a Hyper-V instance and SA rights to a SQL Server Instance. The instance is available to you for three continuous hours and you are welcome to come back and use the beta instance as often as you like.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\">We have included the following sample databases for you to perform your experiment upon:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\">\n<ul>\n<li>Adventure Works 2008 OLTP<\/li>\n<li>Adventure Works 2008 DW<\/li>\n<li>Adventure Works 2008 AS<\/li>\n<li>Adventure Works 2008 LT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>We will be adding additional labs in the coming months in preparation for the release of SQL Server 2008 R2, so check back often.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you get in on this great deal? Well just head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlserverbeta.com\">http:\/\/www.sqlserverbeta.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/test.sqlserverbeta.com\/Home\/Register\/tabid\/85\/Default.aspx\">Register<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon students, this is just a quick announcement to let you know that SQL University (sort of) is offering a computer lab for students to cut their teeth on SQL 2008 technology. I say sort of because this lab is actually offered via a partnership with PASS, Maximum ASP, and DELL Computers\u00a0at http:\/\/www.sqlserverbeta.com . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,32],"tags":[48,75,123,95,124],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-university","category-syndication","tag-announcement","tag-learning","tag-sql-university","tag-sqlu","tag-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7glzN-5S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlchicken.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}