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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! Performance Tuning Class, San Diego, March 2017 Buuut, we gotta move classes around, so here’s our upcoming lineup: Performance Tuning (4 days,…

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…

“Who replaced my SQL Server book with a cookbook?” 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…

With fifteen years of blog posts, we’d accumulated a lot of junk around here. “Did I really write a blog post about buying pantyhose for turtles?” 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…

Would you buy a used database from this cartoon? 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: @TaraKizer on Twitter Her wildly prolific participation in the SQLTeam forums and her blog there as well Her performance tuning chapter in the Tribal…

The newest cartoon face at Brent Ozar Unlimited: Angie Walker 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…

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…

Brent says: beware public toilets with only one data file. Occasionally people ask me if I’m responsible for the cool artwork on our site. I wish I had those kind of skills! The artist behind the artwork on our website is the one and only Eric Larsen. Eric’s been great to work with: he doesn’t laugh…