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Here’s what I wrote in 2022 that gathered the most views: #10: Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? February 2022 Edition – I saw the success of Hacker News’ “Who’s Hiring” monthly posts, and I blatantly stole the idea for the Microsoft data platform community. It works out well, very popular, very popular. #9: PSPO:…

How about some completely free SQL Server training? Every weekday during the month of October, one of the modules from my Fundamentals classes will be absolutely free to watch. But you gotta watch it that day – you snooze, you lose. To prep, block out a 30-minute window on your calendar, right now. Put a label…

We normally do this in the fall, but given last week’s news, I bet you can understand why we’re doing this a little early, dear reader. You work at a charity or non-profit, helping them make a difference with data, fights for the rights of the underrepresented, or cares for them. Maybe you write reports…

Wanna buy my Recorded Class Season Pass: Fundamentals or Mastering, but you don’t want an annual subscription? Now you can buy either of those bundles, pay one price, and get permanent access to the classes without worrying about recurring fees. The price is the same as if you’d have had the subscription for 2 years.…

You love learning from me. You’ve attended some of my free online streams, read my blog posts, and you use the First Responder Kit. You enjoy my laid-back, humorous approach to sharing what I’ve learned over the years. You love live classes. You’ve tried watching recordings or stepping through demos yourself, but…you just can’t block…

I did huge price cuts this month across the board. My individual Mastering class recordings used to be $995. Now it’s just $395 for Mastering Index Tuning, Mastering Query Tuning, Mastering Parameter Sniffing, or Mastering Server Tuning. The Recorded Class Season Pass: Mastering used to be $2,395 for all of my Masters classes. Now it’s…

Tuesday & Wednesday afternoon at 2PM Pacific, 5PM Eastern, I’ll be streaming Office Hours live in my Twitch channel. I’ll post the recordings on my YouTube channel. Post your questions and upvote the ones you’d like to see here. Here are calendar reminders for Tuesday and for Wednesday. I’ve been doing these disconnected – recording…

If you’ve been watching my Instagram feed or any of my recent Office Hours videos, you’ve noticed that I’ve moved down to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I’m absolutely loving it, having a great time watching whales, sitting on the beach, and sipping margaritas. It turns out that the cost of living in Mexico is cheaper than…

You love learning from me. You’ve attended some of my free online streams, read my blog posts, and you use the First Responder Kit. You enjoy my laid-back, humorous approach to sharing what I’ve learned over the years. You love live classes. You’ve tried watching recordings or stepping through demos yourself, but…you just can’t block…

Today is literally it. This is the end of an era. One of the most popular things I sell is my Live Class Season Pass, which gives you two cool things: The ability to drop in on any live online class that I teach for a year straight, plus The ability to stream the recordings,…

You’ve been working with Microsoft SQL Server for a couple of years, and you know a little bit about TempDB. You’ve heard that temp tables and table variables have different performance characteristics than regular user database tables, and you’ve heard that you’re supposed to have multiple data files. You’re wondering what exactly goes on behind…

Your report queries are too slow. You’ve tried throwing some hardware at it: your production SQL Server has 12 CPU cores or more, 128GB RAM, and SQL Server 2016 or newer. It’s still not enough to handle your growing data. It’s already up over 250GB, and they’re not letting you purge old data. Will columnstore…

To celebrate the holiday season, we give back to those who spend their entire year giving back in their own communities. We go looking for data professionals who make a difference, and we try to make a difference in their lives too. The scholarship program makes the heart part happy. This year, we’re proud to…

When you buy my Live Class Season Pass, you can attend all of my live online training classes for a year straight, plus watch the recordings. It’s an excellent deal: go to your manager just once, get approval just once, and then spend the entire year learning how to master SQL Server. You don’t have to…

This month & next, I’m going to teach you the fundamentals of SQL Server database performance tuning, live, for free. The first class is my How to Think Like the Engine class. It’s already free online in both video and blog post formats, but this fall I’m updating and expanding it to a 3-hour version.…

You work at a charity or non-profit, helping them make a difference with data. Maybe you write reports to help fundraisers do a better job of raising money to find a cure for a disease. Or maybe you’re a developer at a non-government organization whose mission is to speak for those who can’t speak for…

From time to time, when my incredibly busy (cough)vacation(/cough) schedule permits, I do a live Office Hours stream where I take your questions and answer ’em live. I’m going to do a couple of them this week, but I’m going to do them disconnected. I’ll be recording them on the road – Erika and I…

If you want to attend my live online classes, it’s really easy: just buy a Live Class Season Pass and you can drop in on any class that works for your schedule. I recommend attending ’em in this order: Fundamentals, required, in this order: Index Tuning, Query Tuning, Parameter Sniffing Fundamentals, optional: Columnstore, TempDB (can be…