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What are students saying about my latest round of classes?

Last Updated March 14, 2019

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…

The Next Mastering Series is About to Start. Wanna Save $2,000?

Last Updated February 6, 2019

Brent Ozar

Company News, Conferences and Classes

Ever wanted to take my Mastering series of classes? I recommend that you take ’em in a specific order because each class builds on the next. If you try to parachute in out of order, you’re gonna have a bad time. The next rotation is about to start: Fundamentals of Index Tuning – Feb 13…

Registration Open for My Upcoming Pre-Cons: Belgium, Dallas, Iceland, Israel, Miami, Orlando!

Last Updated February 5, 2019

Brent Ozar

Company News

I’m hitting the road this spring. Here’s where to find me in person: SQLSaturday Iceland – Your First SQL Server Performance Tuning Class – March 16 – You’re stuck with a database server that’s not going fast enough. You have a hunch that the biggest bottleneck is inside the database server somewhere, but where? In this one-day…

Erik and Tara Are Heading Out

Last Updated January 2, 2019

Brent Ozar

Company News

The rock stars. About two years ago, I realized I didn’t have the skills to grow the consulting part of the company to become a 10-employee firm, so I laid off Angie, Doug, and Jessica. This year, I made the tough decision to close the consulting side of the business entirely. I’ll be focusing on…

The 2018 Blog Posts You Commented On the Most

Last Updated December 22, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

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. 9. Index Tuning Week: How Many Indexes…

Congratulations to the Scholarship Class of 2019.

Last Updated November 19, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

To celebrate the holiday season each year, we give back to those who spend the 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. This year, we’re proud to announce a new round of winners.…

You read reviews before you buy training, right?

Last Updated October 23, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

Confession time: I love buying stuff. It’s not so much the buying as it is the comparing. I go to The Wirecutter, I read every review on Amazon, and I make little Excel spreadsheets to show differences between products. So what about when you buy database training? Do you read the reviews? If you’ve been…

Thank you, #sqlfamily, for donating to The Trevor Project.

Last Updated October 22, 2018

Brent Ozar

#SQLPass, Company News

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about how Andy Mallon’s LGBTQ Meetup was raising money for The Trevor Project, and how we’d match up to $5,000 of your donations. This weekend, you did it. You hit the $5,000 mark. I’m so proud of you. This is the caring, welcoming community that I love.…

Building SQL ConstantCare®: Separating Out the Videos

Last Updated October 12, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

When we started offering SQL ConstantCare®, our mentoring service, I wanted to make our web site as simple as practical. Too many choices can paralyze people (and a great place to read more about that is The Paradox of Choice.) To streamline your options, I just bundled all of our self-paced recorded training videos in…

Free Training Classes for Those Who Give Back: Announcing our 2019 Scholarships

Last Updated October 31, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

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…

Database DevOps Featuring Microsoft SSDT

New Classes: Dashboard in a Day, Database DevOps, tSQLt, SQL Server Internals, and Avoiding NOLOCK

Last Updated July 27, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

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…

Announcing “Great Post, Erik” – A Book of Erik’s Best Work

Last Updated August 9, 2019

Brent Ozar

Company News

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…

What Do You Want to Learn This Fall?

Last Updated July 16, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

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.

Announcing My @DevIntersection Pre-Con: Developer’s Guide to SQL Server Performance

Last Updated June 22, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

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…

New Training Videos on Memory Grants, Paging, Reporting, Variables, and More

Last Updated June 3, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

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…

Wanna Attend All My Classes for a Year?

Last Updated May 30, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

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…

Training Week: Data Science Fundamentals with a Real Project

Last Updated April 4, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

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…

Training Week: Announcing Ben Miller’s PowerShell for DBAs: Level 2

Last Updated April 11, 2018

Brent Ozar

Company News

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…

Training Week: Announcing Edwin’s New Class on Failover Clustered Instances

Last Updated April 11, 2018

Brent Ozar

Clustering, Company News

This week, we’ve got a bunch of announcements about new training classes. Next up, Edwin Sarmiento: his 3-day Always On Availability Group class has been getting great reviews: “This class is fantastic. There is no filler, and no needless repetition, so be prepared to pay attention the entire duration. Edwin clearly is very passionate about…

Performance Tuning in 21 Demos at the PASS Summit 2018

Last Updated October 21, 2018

Brent Ozar

#SQLPass, Company News

Performance Tuning in 21 Demos You’re a developer or DBA who wants to tune indexes and queries to make your application go faster. You don’t like learning by watching slides or reading white papers – you want to jump right into the code and see what happens. You’re the kind of person who loves watching…