Doing the BI Certification with Koenig-Solutions in Dubai - background

This blogentry is something complete different compared to the little bit of other stuff I've put on the blog. This is about my journey to Dubai for a 12 fast-track course on MS SQL 2008 Business Intelligence. For some time ago I was supposed to attend a course back in Denmark over a couple of months, with a weekly meetup with instructors and fellow students. The course never got off the air and was canceled. This was back in late 2009. Suddenly a opportunity came up for trying to go again, but this time I had heard about Koenig-Solutions, an Indian based course supplier. After a quick check I signed up for a 12 days fast-track course, with base out of Dubai. What this also meant was actually 14 days away from my family, including 3 small kids.

Signing up with Koenig-Solutions was inspired from this guy's blog-post who went to Goa for a course. Going to India is cheaper than going to Dubai, on the contrary Dubai is a shorter flight from Denmark, and no Visa or vaccines is required. Dubai is of course also more western kind-of. So the sum of all is, that I booked 12 days in Dubai with MS SQL 2008 BI Maintain & Development, including 2 MS certifications. The booking and communication with Koenig before the trip has been good, with quick answers on all kinds of questions. Even a question just before scheduled departure because of illness to a family member was handled very well. It turned out that up to start of the course start you can actually cancel and get a almost fully refund. Try that with a european company.

All for now, next blog post will be about the first couple of days in Dubai.