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.
16d 06h 31m until registration closes
Plus a Monday roundup of my favorite database news from around the web.
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See consultingWe're discontinuing our apps (not the First Responder Kit scripts, just the apps), which means I'm laying off Richie Rump, my developer that's worked with me for the last decade.
Calling him "my developer" doesn't do justice to Richie's role here, and he's really humble, so I wanted to lay out the top 5 reasons you should hire him.
I 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.
