Free Webcast: How to Think Like the Engine, Big Data Edition

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Brent, Big Coat Edition

You’ve watched my free How to Think Like the Engine class that focuses on the small 1GB Users table.

Let’s take things up a notch by using the ~164GB Posts table full of questions & answers. You’ll learn:

  • What PAGEIOLATCH waits are
  • Why you can’t usually fix them by just adding small amounts of memory like 16-64GB RAM
  • Why key lookups aren’t a big deal (compared to the alternative)
  • Why SELECT * isn’t as bad as it’s cracked up to be
  • Why big data also means slow writes on storage

Join me next Thursday for a free webcast sponsored by Pure Storage. See you there!

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