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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…

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I don’t usually post product reviews here on the blog, but Vadim Kulikov (aka BlondeDBA in Slack) recently finished all of the Mastering classes, and he took the time to write a really detailed review. Here it is, unedited: I heard some folks refer to Brent’s training as “Brent Ozar’s Full Experience”. I really like…

I teach my Mastering classes in a regular rotation: Mastering Index Tuning, then Mastering Query Tuning, then Mastering Server Tuning. I go 1-2-3 like that because they build on each other, and I repeat ’em over and over through the year so people can gradually make progress. I just finished another rotation, so it’s time…

I registered it before then, and it used to be a static HTML site, but I consider the birthday to be the first published blog post from May 7, 2002. A few fun stats: 2002 Brent: at home with a Thinkpad with a webcam module on top, reading HAL-PC Magazine 2,546 blog posts 38,614 comments…

Mastering Index Tuning has a fresh set of reviews from the latest students. Levente Kalotai wrote: Absolutely loving it. The class, Brent style, everything. I have to admit, I had my reservations before the class, but boy I was wrong about it. Less than 5 minutes in the first lab anyone can see the insane…

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…