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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…

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…

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…

Our recent class lineup did pretty well, so now we’ve got a new round: Always On Availability Groups: The Senior DBA’s Field Guide with Edwin Sarmiento – December 20-22, $2,995 – Learn clustering, design, topologies, readable secondaries, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Expert SSIS Training with Andy Leonard – December 4-5, $1,995 – For SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)…

“Now I just need a big enough drink glass” For the next 10 days, we’ll still be publishing scheduled blog posts, but we’ll be responding a little slower than usual, and probably a little more relaxed as well. That’s right – it’s time for our annual company retreat. This year, we’re back aboard a cruise…

Me, Damian Widera, and Kamil Nowinski in Wroclaw On my Poland trip, I sat down with Kamil Nowinski and Damian Widera to talk about how I got started with presenting, why I don’t use PowerShell (but you should), how sp_Blitz ended up on Github, my work/life balance, the Microsoft Certified Master exam, and a lot…