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Reading is fundamental, and fundamentally, here are the 2025 blog posts that y’all read the most this year. (This list doesn’t include the most popular timeless posts overall.) 10. Free Spring Training Webcasts – I’ve noticed that people have near-zero interest these days in paying to attend live online classes, but they’re still really interested…

If you’re the kind of person who likes to learn on the go, my training provider Teachable just updated their apps. Now, both the Android and iOS apps let you download classes ahead of time and watch ’em disconnected. I also love the built-in reminder features of the app: you can set a reminder time…

You’ve been on the nice list, and Santa has a little something special for you under the tree this Christmas. And by Santa, I mean me. SQL Server 2025, 2022, and 2019 all dramatically changed the game for performance tuning. We have more and better tooling than we’ve ever had before, and there are new…

You’ve been working with SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, or Amazon RDS SQL Server for years. You’re jaded. You’re confident. You’re pretty sure you know what you’re doing. You’ve never taken my Mastering classes because you’ve read the blog, watched the live streams, and figured you’ve pieced it all together. You can’t imagine there’s anything…

Last week, I announced that we’ve hit 50,000 YouTube subscribers, and I celebrated by letting y’all submit your favorite YouTube channels in the comments, and 5 of you would win my Fundamentals & Mastering Class Bundle. You did not disappoint. First, I’m giving 5 Fundamentals Bundles to these 5 folks who suggested channels that already…

This is kinda amazing to me: our YouTube channel has broken the 50,000 subscriber mark! That’s wild to me because I don’t put “please like and subscribe” type stuff in the videos, and I don’t try to build viral content. I just show up every week and publish answers to y’all’s questions from PollGab. And…

Back in May 2001 when I first registered BrentOzar.com, I never would have dreamed how things would go. I couldn’t have imagined that decades later, the site would be home to: Over 3,500 blog posts with over 10,000 comments About 1,000 pages of content A mailing list with about 50,000 active subscribers A First Responder…

This is it: the very peak of my free SQL Server Spring Training webcast series. I’ve been teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free this spring, and now it’s time for the Mastering classes. Tomorrow I’m covering Mastering Server Tuning. This class is the grand finale of all of my classes, and…

This is it: the very peak of my free SQL Server Spring Training webcast series. I’ve been teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free this spring, and now it’s time for the Mastering classes. Tomorrow I’m covering Mastering Query Tuning. This class is specifically targeted at folks who have already attended the…

This is it: the very peak of my free SQL Server Spring Training webcast series. I’ve been teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free this spring, and now it’s time for the Mastering classes. Tomorrow I’m covering Mastering Index Tuning. This class is specifically targeted at folks who have already attended the…

Deadlocks used to scare me. I’d get the alert from a monitoring tool, and I’d look around to see if anyone was watching me. If the coast was clear, I’d… delete the notification. Deadlocks were a mystery to me because I didn’t know how I was supposed to fix them. Sometimes the same queries could…

It’s time for SQL Server Spring Training! I’m teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free over the next few months. Tomorrow I’m teaching Fundamentals of Columnstore, and we’re going to be covering the internals of how SQL Server and Azure SQL DB store data in columnstore indexes. You’ll learn why people think it’s…

It’s time for SQL Server Spring Training! I’m teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free over the next few months. Tomorrow I’m teaching Fundamentals of TempDB, and we’re going to be covering temp table statistics, execution plans, and plan reuse. There’s a lot more to cover in TempDB, like table variables, memory-optimized…

It’s time for SQL Server Spring Training! I’m teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free over the next few months. Tomorrow I’m doing Fundamentals of Query Tuning. It’s for folks who are comfortable writing queries to get the data they want, but wildly uncomfortable reading query plans and trying to explain why queries…

It’s time for SQL Server Spring Training! I’m teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free over the next few months. Tomorrow I’m doing Fundamentals of Index Tuning. It’s targeted at folks who don’t know how to determine which column should go first in an index – and if you think the right…

Starting next Tuesday, I’m doing absolutely free 90-minute live training webcasts to help y’all get your learn on: March 11: Fundamentals of Index Tuning March 18: Fundamentals of Query Tuning April 1: Fundamentals of TempDB April 8: Fundamentals of Columnstore May 6: Mastering Index Tuning May 13: Mastering Query Tuning May 20: Mastering Parameter Sniffing May…

Starting next month, I’m doing absolutely free 90-minute live training webcasts to help y’all get your learn on: March 11: Fundamentals of Index Tuning March 18: Fundamentals of Query Tuning April 1: Fundamentals of TempDB April 8: Fundamentals of Columnstore May 6: Mastering Index Tuning May 13: Mastering Query Tuning May 20: Mastering Parameter Sniffing May…

The year is coming to a close, so it’s time to look back on your favorite stuff from this year. 2024 Blog Posts with the Most Comments What’s Your Biggest Database Regret? Query Exercise: Fix This Computed Column Query Exercise: Find the Best Time for Database Maintenance Query Exercise: Find Recent Superstars Query Exercise: Find…

In my PollGab room where y’all can ask questions, Chocolate Thunder wrote: I do genuinely wish that I could do two things at the same time: Give y’all everything for free, and Pay for the roof over my head and put food on my table I haven’t figured out how to do both of those…

Our annual Black Friday sale launches this Friday and runs all month. For those of you who are early birds, the folks who move quickly when the sales open on Friday, I’ve got a special bonus for you. The first 100 buyers can use coupon code EarlyBird11 to save an additional 11% off the already-discounted…