Conferences and Classes

The Data.TLV Summit on September 15th is a big free conference on data engineering, business intelligence, data analysis, and … beer. I’m excited to announce that I’ll be back in Tel Aviv again for it, and this time I’m teaching a pre-conference workshop on the cloud. Running SQL Server in AWS & Azure You’re used…

Watch and learn I’m presenting remotely at the upcoming SQLDay Poland on 9-11 May! I’m teaching a one-day workshop, How I Use the First Responder Kit. You’ve downloaded sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzIndex, and sp_BlitzCache from the First Responder Kit, and you’ve run them a few times. You know there’s a ton of advice in there, but…it’s kinda…

Wanna learn for free? On April 13, I’m doing a session called My Cloud Database Costs are Too High. You’ve moved to the cloud, and now management is asking questions about your monthly bills. They’ve asked you to cut costs. Now what? In this webcast, Brent Ozar will examine the top expense-causing configurations and workloads…

If you don’t get smarter soon, it’s your own damn fault. Oh sure, I’m running a Black Friday sale, but even if you’re as broke as SSMS’s live query plans, you can still afford this free stuff I’m doing: Weds-Thurs: Quest Empower 2021 – free conference, and I’ve got a session with Pinal Dave on…

At a conference in Belgium this week, Steve Jones posted a video: A real conference experience. Excellent crowd at @datamindsbe pic.twitter.com/TGZmw5PdmC — way0utwest ?? (He/Him/His) (@way0utwest) October 11, 2021 My first reaction was, “That’s an awful lot of people in really close proximity, talking loudly at each other, and none of them are wearing masks.”…

This fall, I’m going to teach you the fundamentals of Microsoft database performance tuning, live, for free. The first class is my How to Think Like the Engine class. It’s already free online in both video and blog post formats, but this fall I’m updating and expanding it to a 3-hour version. You could totally…

With PASS shutting down, it’s time to think about what the community builds in its place. There are a lot of efforts going towards building replacements for PASS, including Microsoft’s own efforts. Because these efforts are often led by active community volunteers, they’re very well in touch with what event organizers, sponsors, and speakers want…

I can smell your parameters from here You swear nothing has changed, but all of a sudden, out of nowhere, queries that used to be fast are suddenly slow. Even weirder, you take the slow query from the application, run it in SSMS, and it’s totally fast! What’s going on? You restart SQL Server or…

You’ve been using Microsoft SQL Server for a few years, and it’s becoming increasingly important to your job. You can write a query, but… You feel like something’s missing. You attended a few local user groups or meetups before the quarantines hit, but you were disappointed at how scattered the sessions were. The material was…

The robots are really just people wearing metallic masks. You’ve been hearing about all these robots that are coming to take your job. They’re going to automate all the performance tuning and make your life way easier, right? Or harder, I guess…since you’ll be looking for a job. Thing is, most of that is just…