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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…

Kalen Delaney has been a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server since 1993. She is the author of several highly regarded books, including Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals, SQL Server Concurrency, SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, and SQL Server Internals of In-Memory OLTP. Somewhere around a decade ago, she sold a training video CD that was the first SQL Server…

Andy Leonard In our weekly Office Hours, we hang out and answer questions from you, dear reader. In April, we’re trying something new: guest hosts. If you’ve got a topical question or something you want to ask a specific person, now’s your chance: April 4th – let’s talk about performance tuning with @PinalDave April 11th…

All of our training classes include Instant Replay, the ability to watch a recorded version of your training class as soon as you buy. This lets you start learning right away, prepping for the live class, and then you get to see an updated version after the live class finishes, too. Our students keep telling…

In my new 3-day Mastering Index Tuning, Mastering Query Tuning, and Mastering Server Tuning, you get remote access to a SQL Server where you get a series of lab assignments. There’s a real-world style workload running against the Stack Overflow database, and you’ve gotta figure out how to make it go faster. Then, you see…

The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a set of rules that give consumers rights about how their data is stored, used, and deleted. This step-by-step GDPR guide for managers is a great place to start understanding it, or for something a little more dry and lengthy, try Microsoft’s guide to GDPR. As…