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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.

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 Teachable.

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 time, and I figured that I wouldn't always be interested in the goth lifestyle, hahaha.

The most popular posts this year were when I ran my Fundamentals classes for free throughout the year. I ran a different class per month, and posted signups and videos here on the blog. I'm setting those aside, though, because they're not evergreen: they've since disappeared since I only ran 'em free for a limited period of time.

Time to get your learn on: this week's Mastering Parameter Sniffing class recordings are already available in your account here if you've got a Live Class Season Pass. (What's that? You don't have one yet? Well, tell you what: click here and I'll make you a special deal.)

Just to give you a taste, the first module, How Index Tuning Reduces the Blast Radius, is free to watch through this weekend:

I hate posting things on April 1, but there's no laughing here, only cheering.

During our March quarantine sale, I donated 10% of all sales to Doctors Without Borders.

Yesterday, I showed the stuff you read the most, but enough data - now, let's talk about feelings. These were the 11 posts I remember with the most fondness, in date order. I did indeed like some of the ones from yesterday's list a lot, but I'm going to set those aside. Erik and Tara…

Here are the 2019 posts you visited the most this year: 10. The Silent Bug I Find in Most Triggers - Once you know how to recognize this bug, you'll see it everywhere. I wrote the post as an interactive Azure Data Studio notebook, something I thought I'd be doing a lot in 2019, but…

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.

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.

Update 2021-03: We now sell our training classes worldwide here. 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…