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Launch Day Bonus: Free Stuff on Friday
Our annual Black Friday sale launches this Friday and runs all month. For those of you who are early birds, the folks who move quickly when the sales open on Friday, I’ve got a special bonus for you....
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Let’s Have a Drink
I was making myself a drink to film Office Hours and I realized I should just film it in my home bar. I mixed myself a gin & tonic and took your top-voted questions from...
View ArticleOur Annual Black Friday Sale Starts Now!
The wait is over: my annual Black Friday sale has officially launched! If you’ve been eyeing any of my SQL Server training courses, now is the time to act. You can snag deep discounts on all of my...
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Watch Me Stream at the PASS Summit for Free!
This week at the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, 15 sessions are getting streamed online for free! I’m proud to be one of ’em – my session’s on Friday. Here’s the lineup, all times Pacific:...
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Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? November 2024 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of November 2024? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring,...
View ArticleOffice Hours at the PASS Summit in Seattle
I’m in Seattle this week for the PASS Data Community Summit. Before the pre-conference sessions started, I sat down to take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we...
View ArticleOffice Hours in the Valley of Fire
I took the Graffiti Gulf 356 out to the Valley of Fire State Park to exercise it, and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:39...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: SQL Server Questions and Answers
That face I’m making in the video thumbnail is priceless. YouTube randomly picks these, and I laughed out loud at this one. Anyhoo, let’s get to answering your top-voted questions from...
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Copilot in SSMS is Kinda Like IE in SSMS
You are not ready for how weird my take is. Last week at the PASS Summit conference in Seattle, Microsoft showed off the upcoming SQL Server Management Studio v21. One of the most intriguing features...
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SSMS v21: Dark Mode, Git, Vertical Tabs, and More
SQL Server Management Studio v21 Preview 1 is out and let’s give it a quick whirl. It’s installed with the Visual Studio installer. That doesn’t mean Visual Studio is installed or required – it’s not –...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Guess the Theme Edition
There’s a secret theme to the questions I hand-picked from the queue at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Normally I just take the top-voted ones, but today, see if you can spot the thing they all have...
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Help Me Help You.
In my PollGab room where y’all can ask questions, Chocolate Thunder wrote: I do genuinely wish that I could do two things at the same time: Give y’all everything for free, and Pay for the roof over my...
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SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Fall 2024
Every quarter, we publish adoption rate data showing how quickly people are adopting new versions of SQL Server. Today it’s time for the fall 2024 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report....
View ArticleWhat’s New in SQL Server 2025
Today at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025. The biggest new features focus on AI and bringing the latest Azure SQL DB features down to your own servers. Here are the top features:...
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3 Legit Signs It’s Time for Enterprise Edition
Your app is happily humming along on SQL Server Standard Edition. Things are quiet – too quiet. You’re wondering what you’re missing, and whether you should be on SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Here...
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Updated Training Modules for SQL Server 2019 & 2022
At the PASS Summit this month, I presented a 1-day workshop called T-SQL Tuning for SQL Server 2019 & 2022. I just took that material and refactored it into a few different modules for various...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Database Questions
I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. At one point, my camera overheats – hang in there, I get it fixed in a few seconds. Here’s what we discussed: 00:00 Start 01:59...
View ArticleThis Is It! Our Annual Black Friday Sale on SQL Server Training…
You’ve been eyeing my training classes all year long, biting your lip with lustful hunger, wishing you could get the same quality of training that over 6,000 of your friends have attended. Now’s your...
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Making Your Learning Plan for 2025
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,...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Car in the Dining Room Edition
What, doesn’t everyone park a convertible in their dining room? I address the pink elephant in the room, and then take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we...
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