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The rock stars. About two years ago, I realized I didn’t have the skills to grow the consulting part of the company to become a 10-employee firm, so I laid off Angie, Doug, and Jessica. This year, I made the tough decision to close the consulting side of the business entirely. I’ll be focusing on…

Of the blog posts we published in 2018, here are the ones that got you talking the most. These comment counts are as of December 17th (writing this post a little ahead of time.) 10. SQL Server Patches for Meltdown and Spectre Attacks, Brent Ozar – 26 comments. 9. Index Tuning Week: How Many Indexes…

To celebrate the holiday season each year, we give back to those who spend the 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. This year, we’re proud to announce a new round of winners.…

Five years ago, I had a crazy thought. I liked bargain shopping during Black Friday sales, picking out a new TV or holiday vacation. Why not run a Black Friday sale here on our stuff, too? Over the years, it’s turned into one of my favorite times of the year. We used to only run…

Confession time: I love buying stuff. It’s not so much the buying as it is the comparing. I go to The Wirecutter, I read every review on Amazon, and I make little Excel spreadsheets to show differences between products. So what about when you buy database training? Do you read the reviews? If you’ve been…

You have a team of database developers and DBAs – SQL Server professionals who want dedicated help. You want a predictable bill that includes training, mentoring, consulting meetings, and career growth. In The Team Membership, you get: Live quarterly meetings with us – every quarter, we’ll schedule one 4-hour online meeting with your team to discuss your…

When we started offering SQL ConstantCare®, our mentoring service, I wanted to make our web site as simple as practical. Too many choices can paralyze people (and a great place to read more about that is The Paradox of Choice.) To streamline your options, I just bundled all of our self-paced recorded training videos in…

You’re stuck with a database server that’s not going fast enough. You have a hunch that the biggest bottleneck is inside the database server somewhere, but where? In this one-day class, you’ll learn how to identify which queries are killing your server, what parts of the database server are holding you back, how to tackle…

Azure Data Factory, or ADF, is an Azure PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) that provides hybrid data integration at global scale. Use ADF to build fully managed ETL in the cloud – including SSIS. Join Andy Leonard – author, blogger, and Chief Data Engineer at Enterprise Data & Analytics – as he demonstrates practical Azure Data Factory use cases. In this course, you’ll…

We first unveiled this class for the PASS Summit, but due to high demand, we’re doing an online version, too. You’re a developer or DBA who wants to tune indexes and queries to make your application go faster. You don’t like learning by watching slides or reading white papers – you want to jump right…

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…

We’ve got a few new goodies, and they’re 50% off for a limited time! Dashboard in a Day – A hands-on workshop using Power BI to rapidly produce great looking interactive reports and dashboards. Your instructor, Microsoft MVP Steph Locke, has a decade of BI and data science experience. Learn more and register. Database DevOps Featuring…

Erik Darling blogs a lot. Not lightweight stuff, either, but ambitious posts with a lot of demo scripts, screenshots, and detailed explanations about why SQL Server does what it does. So as he approached his 300th blog post, we decided to build a best-of book with his favorites. There’s no new content here: if you’ve…

New class survey We’re designing a new round of courses for the fall. Let us know what you want to learn in this short survey. After you take it, you get to see the answers, too, so you can learn what other folks wanna learn.

You’ve built an application that uses SQL Server or Azure SQL DB as a back end, and it’s starting to get popular. Unfortunately, the queries just aren’t returning data fast enough. You’ve run a few diagnostic queries, but you’re overwhelmed with conflicting information and no smoking gun. You want better performance by making as few…

This week, Erik’s added several new videos to his T-SQL Level Up: Level 2 course: Memory Grants (15m) Paging (28m) Reporting in Production (10m) Variables (16m) And to celebrate their release, you can watch ’em free this week. Students with eagle eyes will notice new “Mark as Complete” buttons beneath each video, too. This makes…

Live Class Season Pass When I introduced my Live Class Season Pass, buyers got access to my entire new Mastering series for 2018. I wasn’t sure how buyers would react to the new class lineup – these classes are tough. They’re 3 days of alternating between deep lectures and challenging labs. You get hands-on access to…

When Steph Locke first ran her Data Science Fundamentals with R class, I was amazed at the work she put into the hands-on labs for the students. They had real challenges to help them learn how to model different kinds of data and learn answers from it. I immediately said to her, “Hey, I wanna give…

Drew Furgiuele‘s PowerShell for DBAs class has been getting rave reviews, including: “Fantastic class! This is the best online training I’ve ever taken. Very slick setup using the webinar for learning, an AWS VM for labs, and slack for interacting with the class. This course teaches more than just PowerShell for SQL Server – the…