Conferences and Classes

Announcing SQLBits 2024: 19-23 March, Near London

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I hate picking favorites, but I gotta be honest: SQLBits is my favorite conference. Sure, like any conference, it has workshops, training days, and even a free community day, but the icing on the crumpet is the attendee party. Every year, Bits goes all out to pick a theme and throw a monster Friday night…
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#PASSdataCommunitySummit Keynote Day 2 Live Blog

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I’m in Seattle for the PASS Data Community Summit, and the day 2 keynote is about to start. This year, now that Redgate owns the Summit event, they’re doing the day 2 keynote. Gotta pay the bills, I suppose! Redgate’s CEO, Jakub Lamik, is leading a team of speakers for the keynote, and here’s the…
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Join #TeamHugo and Help Fight Leukemia.

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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while or subscribed to my email newsletters, you’ve learned something from Hugo Kornelis. Hugo is the wildly productive and selfless guy behind the Execution Plan Reference, SQLServerFast.com, tons of SQLBits sessions, videos on YouTube, and he’s @Hugo_Kornelis. He’s unbelievably upbeat and positive. He loves what he does, and…
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And it looks bad even in shades.

Here’s What I’m Teaching at the 2022 PASS Summit.

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The lineup for the PASS Data Community Summit is out, and in addition to my pre-conference workshop on Mastering Parameter Sniffing, I’m also teaching two sessions: Everything You Know About Parallelism Is Wrong. Just because you see parallelism icons on execution plans doesn’t mean the query went parallel. SQL Server doesn’t load-balance work across CPU cores.…
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