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T-SQL & Development

Announcing Erik’s First Video Class: T-SQL Level Up, Level 2

April 25, 2017

You’re confident writing queries to get the data you want, and you’ve been doing it for a couple of years. You've taken our free T-SQL Level Up class, mastered tally tables and windowing functions, but what else is there?

In this class with T-SQL maestro Erik Darling, you’ll learn tricks to take your queries to the next level: dynamic SQL, CTEs, fast-performing functions, temp tables versus table variables, computed columns, and more.

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Announcing Our Summer/Fall Training Schedule and Instant Video Access

April 6, 2017

I had a great time in San Diego over the last couple of weeks teaching classes. I'd love to be able to have every training class where we can do breakfast & lunch outdoors!

Buuut, we gotta move classes around, so here's our upcoming lineup:

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Announcing Monthly Training Subscriptions and Some Cool Perks.

April 4, 2017

We've been selling training videos for a few years now, and we've figured out that we have two kinds of buyers:

Price-sensitive short-term customers - who are often paying out of their own pocket because their company won't pay, and they want to learn as much as they can in a short period of time
Long-term enterprise-y customers - who submit their training via an expense report, and they just want all of our training, renewable every year

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We’re Changing Our Online Training – Here’s Why.

March 26, 2017

When we launched our self-paced online training classes, we packaged them as focused courses that addressed a single pain point like:

How to Tune Indexes and Speed Up SQL Server
How to Read Query Plans
DBA's Guide to High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Virtualization, SANs, and Hardware for DBAs

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It’s now easier to read the BrentOzar.com archives by category.

February 20, 2017

With fifteen years of blog posts, we'd accumulated a lot of junk around here.

Recently we cleaned out a lot of the trash - old personal posts about boring stuff - and categorized the remaining ~2k posts to make it easier to find stuff by topic.

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Applications are Open For Our 2017 Scholarship Program

October 4, 2016

Last year, we gave dozens of amazing people a helping hand so they could improve themselves - and the world around them. I was really touched by the heartfelt thanks we got - and yep, tears were shed. (On both sides of the screen.)

So it's time to do it again.

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Announcing PasteThePlan.com: An Easier Way to Share Execution Plans

September 13, 2016

Since the dawn of man, people have struggled with sharing execution plans with each other for performance tuning. Now, it's easy. First, get yourself a plan: Get the estimated execution plan by hitting control-L or clicking Query, Display Estimated Plan. Right-click on the graphical plan, and click View XML. Copy all of that. Or even…

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Well, That Sucked: Laying Off Half the Company

July 19, 2016

I always wanna be honest with you, dear reader, and let you see how running a lil' consulting shop goes. It's been fun sharing a lot of our happy growing moments along the way. This one, though, is a lot less fun to share.

Yesterday, we had to let go of Angie, Doug, and Jessica.

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Introducing Our Latest Employee, Richie Rump (aka @Jorriss)

February 1, 2016

During our very first training class, we showed the students how we use SET STATISTICS IO ON to get the number of logical reads performed on each table in a query, and then sum 'em up to see the query's overall impact. It's kind of a painful, manual process.

Sitting in the back row of the class (because that's how he rolls), Richie Rump saw that process and thought to himself, "I bet I could make that easier."

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Meet Our Next Consultant: Tara Kizer

January 6, 2016

Tara Kizer is starting a new job today, and I'm proud to say that it's with Brent Ozar Unlimited.

You might know Tara from:

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Jeremiah & Kendra are Heading Out

December 1, 2015

When we started the company a few years ago, we had no idea what we were in for. We had to:

Come up with a product
Build a consistent, repeatable process
Hire the right people to help perform that process
Train them how to do the process
Scale it up bigger
Build training classes for the public to learn the process
Scale those classes up bigger too
And along the way, solve all kinds of challenges around accounting, attorneys, sales, marketing, support, and human resources

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Announcing our 2016 SQL Server Training Scholarship Winners

November 26, 2015

Thanksgiving is the perfect day for us to give back to the community that has given so much to us.

Our SQL Server Training Scholarship program applications were open to folks anywhere in the world working with SQL Server for foundations, non-profits, charities, or other similar companies making a real difference in the world today.

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Angie Walker Joins Brent Ozar Unlimited

November 23, 2015

Brent says: remember a couple months back when we announced that we were hiring a SQL Server Triage Specialist? We're really proud to welcome Angie Walker to our funky little medical team. When you bring us in for a SQL Critical Care®, Angie might be the first person you work with to make sure the server's in a safe place. Let's hear how she got here....
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Angie says: WHERE TO START...?

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Introducing Our 2016 Scholarship Program for SQL Server Training

October 20, 2015

You work with Microsoft SQL Server - maybe as a developer, report writer, analyst, sysadmin, or DBA.

You want to learn more about how to make it faster and more reliable.

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Happy Fourth Birthday to Us, 40% Off Presents for You

April 21, 2015

Four years ago this month, we turned this blog into a consulting company.

We've had so much fun over the last few years, and we're really proud of what we've built:

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Signing off

February 26, 2015

Dear Brent Ozar Unlimited readers: thanks for following me for three great years. I'm off on a new adventure, but I hope to see you at a user group, a SQL Saturday, or a conference in the future!

I'm leaving with a lot of great memories - and here are a few of my favorites from the last three years.

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Quiz: Are You the Next Brent Ozar Unlimited Consultant?

February 24, 2015

Hey SQL Server DBAs -- we're hiring!

Here's a quick five question quiz. Give yourself one point for every 'yes':

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We’re Hiring a Salesperson

January 13, 2015

When we first started our company, we laid out our goals in a shared Google Doc. We wrote about what we wanted to do, how we wanted to treat our employees and customers, and the growth numbers we wanted to achieve. One of our original goals was to hire one consultant per year. In 2012, it…

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Meet the Artist Behind the TempDB Toilets

June 9, 2014

Occasionally people ask me if I'm responsible for the cool artwork on our site.

I wish I had those kind of skills!

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Happy Third Birthday to Us, Presents for You

April 22, 2014

Three years ago this month, we turned this blog into a consulting company. This year, we're ... well, we're still not adults.

It's been an incredible three years. Sure, it feels just "normal" now, but when we look at the numbers, suddenly it feels like a big deal compared to where we were in 2011: