Conferences and Classes

You’re a developer, database administrator, or DBRE who’s been working with SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, and Amazon RDS SQL Server for yeeears. You’re jaded. You’re confident. You’re pretty sure you know what you’re doing. You’ve never taken my Mastering classes because you’ve been reading my blogs and watching my live streams, and you think…

You’re a developer, analyst, database administrator, or anybody else working with SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, or Amazon RDS SQL Server. You want to learn how to make your databases go faster. Good news! Next week, I’m teaching totally free half-day versions of my classes from 9AM-1PM Eastern time, 8AM-Noon Central, 6AM-10AM Pacific: Monday: Fundamentals…

You’re a developer, analyst, database administrator, or anybody else working with SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, or Amazon RDS SQL Server. You want to learn how to make your databases go faster. Good news! In October 13-16, I’m teaching totally free half-day versions of my classes from 9AM-1PM Eastern time, 8AM-Noon Central, 6AM-10AM Pacific: Monday:…

Your developers haven’t ever been to formal Microsoft database training on SQL Server or Azure SQL DB. They’re struggling with trying to tune queries and indexes. Your apps keep getting slower as the data grows, and your queries keep getting more complex. They’ve exhausted their free resources like YouTube videos and blogs, and they’re just…

I’m teaching my two most important classes live, online, completely free! These are the two fundamentals classes that I think everybody should start with, regardless of their experience with SQL Server or Azure SQL DB. I’ll teach you the most important parts about how the database engine works, plus how to use free scripts to…

This month, I’m teaching two of my classes live, online, completely free! These are the two fundamentals classes that I think everybody should start with, regardless of their experience with SQL Server or Azure SQL DB. I’ll teach you the most important parts about how the database engine works, plus how to use free scripts…

Steve Jones recently posted an update about SQL Saturday’s status, and it includes some news we need to talk about: However, this year the number may stagnate or even decline slightly. Running events has become challenging for many communities. Organizers are busy, space is hard to find, and costs are rising…. The biggest challenge in…

Your company doesn’t want to send you off to conferences or training classes in other cities. You’ve looked around locally, but the local options seem to be irrelevant to your needs. It’s generic stuff like how to pass certification classes, or boot camps to get your first DBA job. Perhaps you’ve even talked to some…

Indexing can make or break your SQL Server performance. You need just the right balance: enough indexes to speed up your queries, but not so many that they drag down your inserts, updates, and deletes. Join me as I introduce the “5 & 5 indexing guideline” — a practical approach to tuning indexes for maximum…

This is it! You’ve been watching my free live Spring Training classes over the last several weeks, and they’ve whetted your appetite for serious SQL Server learning. You enjoy my laid-back, humorous approach to sharing what I’ve learned over the years. You love live classes. You’ve tried watching recordings or stepping through demos yourself, but…you…

You’ve attended some of my free online streams, read my blog posts, and you use the First Responder Kit. You enjoy my laid-back, humorous approach to sharing what I’ve learned over the years. You love live classes. You’ve tried watching recordings or stepping through demos yourself, but…you just can’t block out the time, and you…

You’ve attended some of my free online streams, read my blog posts, and you use the First Responder Kit. You enjoy my laid-back, humorous approach to sharing what I’ve learned over the years. You love live classes. You’ve tried watching recordings or stepping through demos yourself, but…you just can’t block out the time, and you…

A few things lined up perfectly for a European trip this summer. I’m on a European cruise in early June, then Data Saturday Croatia on June 14, and then SQL Bits on June 21. For Croatia, I’m teaching a one-day preconference workshop: Faster, Cheaper Cloud Databases. You’re managing databases that live in AWS, Azure, and…

This week is my annual Black Friday sale, and over and over, folks buy the Fundamentals & Mastering Bundle because it’s such a good deal. But then they let it sit in their accounts. Time flies by, and next thing you know, an entire year has gone by and they haven’t watched any of the…