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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…

We’ve talked about why traditional training sucks, how our all-new series is different, and what our early-access students said. Now it’s time to unveil the new lineup: Always On Availability Groups: The Senior DBA’s Field Guide – Taught by MVP Edwin Sarmiento. 3 days, $2,995. Expert SSIS Training – Taught by BimlHero Andy Leonard. 2 days,…

While developing my new SQL Server training experiment, I ran an early-access version, and here’s what the students wrote: Doug Gideon: “Amazing! It brought me to a whole new level of understanding of performance tuning. Don’t change a thing. The class was fun and the material was presented in an interesting way. I have taken…

Because learning SQL Server is painful, we’ve been experimenting with new topics, new guest instructors, new ways of talking to other students during class, and much more. In addition to our new live class lineup covering PowerShell, Linux, Always On Availability Groups, SSIS, and analytics, I’ve also got something wildly new. I’ve got a new…

Blogs are free, but they’re bite-sized. They’re great when you’ve only got a few minutes, and you wanna learn a single small thing. But they’re not organized in any kind of flow at all – you’re jumping around all over the place, learning random small things. You’re not really mastering a topic start to finish. “Wait…