Online Informix DBA training for the New Year

  • Instructor-led online classes using Zoom or WebEx
  • Four days of hands-on Informixe experience
  • Each student has a separate AWS Informix server for exercises and labs
  • Q&A sessions and collaborative class discussions
  • All courses are taught by Lester Knutsen, IBM Informix Lifetime Champion, with over 40 years of Informix experience.

All training will be conducted as virtual classes. I have moved our training servers to the cloud. I continue developing and updating our course formats for a more flexible combination of instructor-led and self-paced course material with the same performance tuning benchmarks labs. I continue to offer Custom and Private Informix Courses.

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We love to teach Informix

Advanced DataTools is deeply committed to offering quality training. We have trained more than 1,000 Informix database administrators, and have taught thousands of people to use business intelligence tools with our data warehouses. Our instructors are full-time consultants on leading-edge projects, focusing on real-world, day-to-day development problems and user challenges.

Our courses are developed, taught, and updated regularly by Lester Knutsen, an IBM Informix Champion, an Informix Certified Professional, and a Certified Technical Trainer. We teach using the latest release, but cover other versions as needed by students participating.

Virtual Informix DBA Training

Take any scheduled course online from your desk via a web browser and an SSH client (like PuTTY). We schedule Informix DBA and Advanced Informix courses throughout the year, and other courses on demand. All courses can be customized to your requirements.

...from one of our students:

"The Advanced Performance Tuning class helped me to gain a much deeper understanding of how to analyze and troubleshoot database performance issues.The topics that we covered will also help me to make smart decisions for designing and building new databases and servers.I am very pleased with the amount of information that Lester and Art were able to pack into a 4-day course.Their depth of knowledge and experience make this class worth every penny."

~ Ryan Hughes, Choice Hotels International

Our Instructors

Lester Knutsen

Our IBM Informix courses are developed and taught by Advanced DataTools founder Lester Knutsen, who is an Informix Certified Professional and a Certified Technical Trainer. Lester taught the Informix Performance Tuning Course for Informix Corporation as an independent instructor.  He is an experienced database consultant with a reputation for providing excellent training based on his extensive and up-to-date working knowledge of Informix. Lester has been building large database systems with Informix since 1983. He enjoys teaching; he is frequently asked to develop and conduct additional customized courses for customers, and has been teaching his own Informix classes for over 20 years. Lester Knutsen was one of the first to receive the IIUG Directors award in 2002; he is a member of the IBM Gold Consultant program and in October 2008 received one of the Inaugural Data Champion awards by IBM.

Art Kagel

A Principal Consultant with Advanced DataTools, Art has been teaching the Advanced Informix Course for over 10 years. He has more than 28 years of database technical management, computer programming, systems analysis, systems design, database administration, database architecture, and consulting experience. Art has served as Manager of Database Systems and Services for a major information systems and media corporation, as project leader on small and medium size project teams, supervised technicians on a departmental basis, and is a leading consultant specializing in IBM's Informix Server. He has extensive knowledge of hardware and software issues and an affinity for understanding his clients’ business environment. Art received one of the Inaugural Data Champion awards from IBM, and has also received the IIUG Directors Award.

Confirmation

When we receive your registration form and your payment, we will send you an email confirming your registration, along with start and end times, and the address of our Training Center. Dress for our courses is always casual! Lunch is not provided, but there are over 20 restaurants of every kind within walking or short-driving distance.

Registration Policies

Payment in full is required to confirm your seat. Please pay via the PayPal link from our registration web page, or contact us if you need to make other arrangements, or wish to enroll multiple students.

We guarantee to NEVER cancel a course due to low enrollment, and will teach a course as long as one student is confirmed.

Refunds and Cancellations

A full refund will be provided if the customer cancels more than 30 days before the start of the class. In the event you cannot attend, your course fee can be applied to a future class at Advanced DataTools within one year of the original course date. A full refund is provided in the unlikely event of course cancellation by Advanced DataTools.