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I believe everybody in the Microsoft database business should start with these critical tools and knowledge, and I provide ’em free for everybody. Sign up for all of ’em at once here.

The first Microsoft database course you should ever take. Explains the most important parts of indexes and query processing in 2 fast-paced hours.

You’ve downloaded my First Responder Kit with tools like sp_Blitz, but you feel like you’re groping around blindly in the back seat of a car. Learn how I use these tools.

Free daily database monitoring that sends you just one email per day, max, with the most important health tasks.

The easiest way to make all of your queries go faster is to build the right indexes to support them. Learn how in this 4-hour class for $89.

You want faster queries, but you’re not comfortable reading execution plans, finding problems, and tuning T-SQL. Learn how in 4 hours for $89.

A query just suddenly runs slowly. Your fix is to update stats or rebuild indexes. It seems to work, but you don’t know why, and it keeps coming back. Understand why in 4 hours for $89.

Unbiased facts, not hype, about options like Amazon RDS, Azure SQL DB, Managed Instances, Hyperscale, and more in this 4-hour class for $195.

Manage more SQL Servers with less work. Learn how with 7 hours of lectures and fun labs for $89.

What data professionals need to know to access and secure their data in 4 hours for $89.

Your report queries are too slow, and regular indexes aren’t enough. You’re on SQL 2016 or newer, and your data’s up over 250GB. Find out in 4 hours if columnstore indexes can help for $89.

You want to learn how to troubleshoot temp table plan reuse, the version store, latch contention, and where to put the files. Learn in 3 hours for $89.

You don’t go to a lot of job interviews, and you don’t really talk about what you do for a living. So how are you supposed to pass these things? I’ll show you how to ace it for $29.

Mastering Classes

You’ve conquered the fundamentals, and now you’re ready for the toughest challenges.

My Mastering classes are much longer, each about 3 days when you factor in your lab assignments, that push you harder than any other class or conference out there. I teach you a concept with lectures & demos, and then you work on a tough hands-on lab with running workloads.

To follow along, you’ll need to build your own lab VM.

Get ’em all and save big:

My Mastering Bundle comes with over 57 hours of top-notch video training for DBAs and developers.

You don’t have time to fix queries, and you need quick wins. Learn how to use my D.E.A.T.H. Method to fix indexes on an existing database, fast, in 13 hours of lectures & lab challenges for $395.

You’ve conquered Fundamentals of Parameter Sniffing, and now you need to master all the different ways to mitigate parameter sniffing problems for good. I’ll show you in 14 hours of demos and labs for $395.

You need to speed up an existing app, and you’re allowed to change both queries & indexes, but you can’t throw hardware at it. Let’s tackle it in 19 hours of classes & labs for $395.

You’re the kind of admin who’s constantly facing new performance challenges on different servers. Learn how to solve lots of different problems in 12 hours of my toughest lectures & labs for $395.