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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…

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…

Good news, party people: we’re finally selling to the EU/EEA/UK again! To celebrate, during March you can use coupon code Happy20th to save 75% off my Live Class Season Pass, Recorded Class Season Pass Fundamentals, or Masters recordings, or any of my online classes. You can also buy my classes now in Euros, GBP, or…

I’ve been celebrating the 20th anniversary of BrentOzar.com, but it just so happens that this year marks another fun anniversary. Ten years ago, way back in 2011, I wrote: You’re overworked.  You don’t have the time to sit around reading blogs, keeping up on the latest industry news, and reading web comics. That’s where we…

BrentOzar.com is 20 years old, so I’m spending 20 days reflecting. Yesterday, I wrote about how my online classes are available to Europeans now, and today I’m going to talk about why that was a problem for a while, and how I solved it. The short story is that I outsourced the whole thing to…

My first avatar, by Jin Wicked In 2001, I was a developer, and I liked to write. I’d had web sites for a number of years, but in 2001, I decided to switch from wickedlife.com (archive) over to BrentOzar.com. I wanted a domain name that would more appropriately reflect my interests as they changed over…

Good news, party people: we’re finally selling to the European Union, European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom again! You can also buy my classes now in Euros, GBP, or US dollars, whichever currency is more convenient for you. When you click the Buy button, you get your choice of currency, and it calculates your…