Going to SQL Bits in London this year? Join me & Erik Darling on Wednesday at our all-day pre-con session, Expert Performance Tuning for SQL Server 2016 & 2017. Here’s the abstract:

Your job is making SQL Server go faster, but you haven’t been to a performance tuning class since 2016 came out. You’ve heard things have gotten way better with 2016 and 2017, but you haven’t had the chance to dig into the new plan cache tools, DMVs, adaptive joins, and wait stats updates.

In one fun-filled day, Brent Ozar and Erik Darling will future-proof your tuning skills. You’ll learn our most in-depth techniques to tune SQL Server leveraging DMVs, query plans, sp_BlitzCache, and sp_BlitzFirst. You’ll find your server’s bottleneck, identify the right queries to tune, and understand why they’re killing your server. If you bring a laptop with SQL Server 2016 or 2017, and 120GB free space, you can follow along with us in the Stack Overflow database, too.

You’ll go back to the office with free scripts, great ideas, and even a plan to convince the business to upgrade to SQL Server 2016 or 2017 ASAP.

Can’t upgrade to 2016? We’ll even show you memory grant and compilation tracking tricks that work in newer service packs for 2012 and 2014.

This is not an introductory class: you should have 2-3 years of experience with SQL Server, reading execution plans, and working on making your queries go faster.

Attendees will even get a one-year Recorded Class Season Pass – with that, the pre-con pays for itself!

Check out the list of pre-cons, then register for SQL Bits. This same pre-con sold out at Summit long before the conference even started, so don’t wait until the last minute.

See you in London!