Live Class Season Pass

Once your BrentOzar.com account has the Live Class Season Pass membership, you can register for the included classes for free. (If someone else bought the membership for you – like if the buyer’s email doesn’t match the student’s email – we have a little bit of manual work to do behind the scenes to set up your account.)

To register, log in, then go to the list of eligible classes, add the class/date you want to your cart, and check out at least 2 days before the class starts. If you see anything about putting in a credit card, STOP, and make sure you’re logged in with the student’s account. No money should be changing hands here. Well, unless you wanna tip us, but in that case we’d suggest tequila, or XL t-shirts from your place of employment.

Cheating is a bad idea. If you try to register someone else, we will catch you when we audit the list the night before class, and we’ll have to send you a really sad email. (Trust me, I have to do this a few times a year. It’s stunning that people think they can still get away with that in the age of databases, but whatever.)

As soon as you’ve registered for one of the classes, you can start watching its Instant Replay recordings by clicking Training at the top of the site. You’re absolutely welcome to start watching the videos before your class – it can help you get up to speed early, and help you re-absorb the material better during the live class, and ask better questions, too.

There are plenty of seats for Season Pass holders – don’t worry about registering ahead of time if you’re not sure if you’ll be in a class. The Season Pass gets you free entry into each class up to 2 times. (You can even attend a class more times than that, but then there’s a $100 fee to cover your VM.) Don’t panic and try to register for every class – there’s plenty of space for you, and once set, you don’t get a refund if you have to switch dates. (I have to rent your VMs in advance for dates, so if you don’t show up for a class, it doesn’t really matter – that money is gone.) When in doubt, wait it out – you can always register the week before a class. If it looks like a class is sold out, just shoot us an email and we’ll add a spot for you.

I would recommend doing the Mastering Indexes class first, then Mastering Query Tuning, then finally Mastering Server Tuning. That’s why I run the classes in that order, too – they alternate months 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3. If you have to take ’em out of order, that’s okay – it’s just that in the Query Tuning class, I’m going to assume that you’ve already mastered the index tuning portion, so there will be some parts of the class that won’t make as much sense.