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.
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Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 22.7 added the ability to format your T-SQL queries by right-clicking and clicking Format SQL, or by hitting control-K, control-Q on your keyboard:
You're probably not going to like the default formatting out of the box because you're the kind of person who has strong, passionate feelings and likes to argue about them on the Internet. Good news! The configurations are really flexible. Go into Tools, Options, SQL Formatter:
Years ago, when I used to sell a Live Class Season Pass, I sold it year long.
All year long, you could hop into my online store and enroll in my live classes. From the moment you enrolled, you could immediately start attending the very next online class, no matter what the topic was, or how senior it was.
