Free Webcast Coming Up: How to Size Storage for SQL
Storage sizing isn’t just about space: it’s about latency and throughput. When you move to new hardware or the cloud, and when you try to consolidate SQL Servers, you can’t just add up the database sizes and call it a day. Storage siz …
[Video] Office Hours in Malibu: Ask Me Anything About SQL Server
I’m up bright and early in Malibu, so let’s talk through your highly upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. 00:00 Introduction 01:04 JD: Have you ever encountered a very weird case during query / performance tuning that you …
Announcing My 2021 Black Friday Sale Bundles
You’re a database professional who wants to up your game. You’ve been stuck at home this year, and next year isn’t looking much better. You can’t attend in-person training classes, but you desperately need the training. You …
[Video] Office Hours at Silver Strand State Beach: Ask Me Anything About SQL Server
It’s a beach day! Let’s hang out at Silver Strand State Beach and I’ll take your highly voted questions from https://pollgab.com/rooms/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:45 Dylan: Why does an UPDATE on a 2nd …
SQL ConstantCare® is Now Available in the UK & EU.
Earlier this year, we opened up training class sales to the EU and UK. Now, we’re taking it to the next level: my monitoring service SQL ConstantCare® is available in the EU and UK, too! With SQL ConstantCare®, you install an app on …
Congratulations to the Scholarship Class of 2021.
To celebrate the holiday season, we give back to those who spend their entire year giving back in their own communities. We go looking for data professionals who make a difference, and we try to make a difference in their lives too. The scholarship pro …
Free #SQLPASS Keynote: Your Career in the Age of the Cloud
Succeeding as a data professional is all about placing the right bets at the right times. The more you know about what’s happening around you, the better bets you can place. I’ve been working with databases for over two decades. In this ses …
Behind-the-Scenes Home Studio Tour
Whenever I move to a new place and set up a new home studio, I give you a walkthrough so you can get a rough idea of how I work. I just finished setting up my new San Diego home base, and here’s a tour of what it looks like both as an attendee, a …
I’m Not Ready for Maskless Conferences Serving Finger Food.
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, “T …
This is the Last Year You Can Buy a Live Class Season Pass.
When you buy my Live Class Season Pass, you can attend all of my live online training classes for a year straight, plus watch the recordings. It’s an excellent deal: go to your manager just once, get approval just once, and then spend the en …
SqlClient Configurable Retry Logic – ICYMI
While I was doing some research for a client on how to accomplish a specific task, I happened across a BOL topic that caught my attention. With the release of version 3.0 of the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, there is now a new Configurable Retry Logic that …
[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything On the Balcony
Good evening, party people! I finally have my new San Diego home base all set up and unpacked, so I took a champagne break to review your top-rated questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:27 …
Free Classes Start Next Week. Register Now.
This month & next, I’m going to teach you the fundamentals of SQL Server 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 …
[Video] Office Hours in My New San Diego Apartment
Just got the keys to the new home base in San Diego, and the furniture isn’t even in yet. I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento before my smoke alarm battery started chirping: Here’s what we covered: 0 …