Howdy folks. It’s time for SQLBits!
This year, I’m teaching a one-day Mastering Index Tuning workshop from 9AM-5PM London time, and you can join in online. Pricing is £300 for the one-day workshop, or £800 for a full conference pass. You can register here.
Once you’re registered, here’s what you need to do:
- Watch my 75-minute How to Think Like the Engine video
- Set up a SQL Server 2016 or newer instance – a laptop with 4 cores and 16GB RAM is fine, but just make sure you’ve got an SSD, not an ol’ rusty frisbee
- Get the Stack Overflow 2013 database – 10GB direct download, or torrent or magnet – expands to a ~50GB database
- Watch my Fundamentals of Index Tuning class instant replays, and follow along with the hands-on labs
What’s that, you say? You can’t buy my Fundamentals class because you’re in the EU, and we have that whole pesky GDPR problem? Okay, here’s what we’ll do: I’ve opened that class up for free until SQLBits. Go watch now, no registration required.
See you in the workshop!
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Much luv BrentO! Thanks from Italy! I look forward to them all. But I don’t have a 16GB to dedicate to the virtual machine, I’ll wait 🙂
Great Brent, big thanks from Denmark,
i was actually registrered to attend SQLBits and your one day class, but have chosen to transfer the registration to the hopefully live version of SQLBits 2021, as I was not sure that I could keep focus in one week of virtual meetings
regards
Peter
Peter – OK, cool. Just FYI though, I wouldn’t bank on conferences being live in-person in 2021. Microsoft’s already canceled all in-person events for this fiscal year (going through mid-2021), and I know I’m personally not doing any conferences until I’m vaccinated, which looks like it could be quite a while.
sadly ,you’re probably right.
The wording of the transfer document is for the same reason ” a transfer to the next SQLBits in-person event” 🙂
This could very well not be untill 2022
i chose the transfer instead of refund, for the same reason as i keep all my concert tickets: let the organizers have the money, it will hopefully help make them survive this blow to their business.
Hey Brent, so I’ve set up the 50GB Stack Overflow database as you’ve suggested. However, at the end of your fundamentals introduction (https://www.brentozar.com/training/fundamentals-of-index-tuning-instant-replay/) you mention that the 50GB StackOverflow database is good for the fundamentals class, but you jump to a much larger one for the mastering class. So am I ok with the 50GB database or do I need to grab a larger one?
Just the 50GB one is fine. I’ve written a brand new 1-day version of Mastering Index Tuning specifically for Bits for the smaller database. Great question though, and good on you for being detail-oriented!