FALL 2026 ROTATION · Live online
Four live class weeks, each running twice — fall and winter rotations, July through February — on one Season Pass. When registration closes, that's it until next year.
17d 03h 12m until registration closes
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See consultingI used to run live online classes all year round, and I really miss it. I've had such a good time at conferences lately, and I feel like it's time to bring the live stuff back. Plus I don't know about you, but I have a heck of a hard time paying attention to recorded…
On a 12-hour layover in Keflavik, I pulled over my Suzuki Jimny (love these little things, and we can't buy them in the US) in some of the freshest real estate in the world and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. This is a 360-degree video, so you can move the camera angle around with your mouse.
The lineup for the PASS Data Community Summit Seattle event was just released,and I'm proud to share that I'll be teaching my new all-day pre-conference workshop.
Dev-Prod Demon Hunters:
Finding the Real Cause of Production Slowness
Production is slow. Development is fast. The same query runs in both. Somewhere between the two, a performance demon is hiding—and this session is about hunting it down.
About ten years ago, I sketched out an idea for a different kind of SQL Server monitoring tool: one that gathered data just once per day, and gave you a short email with a specific list of actionable tasks to make a difference in health and performance. Richie Rump did an amazing job of building…
