Conferences and Classes

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…

If you want to get a raise or stand out from a crowd of job hunt competitors, you need something to differentiate yourself. Whenever you finish a training class – including mine – ask if you can get a certificate of completion. For example, here’s what mine look like: You can generate ’em yourself after…

Brent, Big Coat Edition You’ve watched my free How to Think Like the Engine class that focuses on the small 1GB Users table. Let’s take things up a notch by using the ~164GB Posts table full of questions & answers. You’ll learn: What PAGEIOLATCH waits are Why you can’t usually fix them by just adding…

The EightKB conference is a free event that focuses on SQL Server internals. You can get the session details and register for the August 8th event at eightkb.online. The session lineup is below, each link being a calendar invite just so you can block out your calendar: Opening Welcome X-Raying Schema Operations: Adding and Removing Columns…

I’m coming to San Diego on Sept 13-14 for SQL Saturday San Diego! I’m teaching a one-day pre-conference workshop on Friday, September 13th. Tuning Databases In One Day – You’ve got production databases in SQL Server or Azure SQL DB, and you want to make ’em faster. You need to identify the database’s bottleneck, prove…

The Monday after next, I’ll be getting together with dozens of smart people who are a lot like 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…

You’ve been reading my site for a while, watching videos, keeping up with the best SQL Server techniques. However, you’ve got a lot of other folks on your team who don’t have as much free time as you, or they’re just getting started on their SQL Server performance tuning journey. Forward this post to them,…

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…

No fooling here. Tomorrow, I’m teaching my very favorite class live online, for free, two different ways – one with all slides, and one with all demos. Whatever way you like to learn, I’ve got you covered. So, what’s the subject? You’re comfortable writing queries to get the data you need. But you’re uncomfortable if someone…