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Tomorrow’s the Last Day to Sign Up!

July 9, 2026

Tomorrow's your last day to join about a dozen of your closest friends - well, you're gonna be close soon - attending my live online fall rotation of all-new classes, starting with next week's Fundamentals Week 2026:

Fundamentals Week - July 13-17 - covering Fundamentals of Index Tuning, Query Tuning, and Server Tuning
Mastering Index Tuning - Aug 31-Sept 4
Mastering Query Tuning - Sept 28-Oct 2
Mastering Server Tuning - Oct 19-23

[Video] Office Hours at the Black Pebble Beach

July 8, 2026

After the PASS Data Community Summit in Frankfurt, Germany, I headed back to Iceland and spent a few more days gallivanting around the country in a Tesla Model Y camper. (Well, "camper" is a glamorous word for it: CampEasy.com puts a mattress in the back. But still.) Today, I'm at Djúpalónssandur, a marvelous black pebble…

T-SQL & Development

I Know a Query’s Gonna Be Bad When… #TSQL2sday

July 7, 2026

I open it up and the first thing I see is a comment with a changelog showing a long list of dates and author initials.

Oh I know, you think documentation is a good thing, but:

Confession Time: I Never Taught You About B-Trees.

July 6, 2026

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I teach people, and I help them via consulting.