SQL Server Consulting, Education, and Training
If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.
Just about a month ago, I launched my online training.
It had been in the works for a while, as I was building up material I was really happy with, alongside working with my smart, wonderful, good-looking clients.
And, you know, those family people. I can hear them once in a while.
It has been a spectacular month, especially considering all that’s going on. As of this writing (at just before the 30 day mark), I’ve given away nearly $40k in training to those in need.
That number doesn’t include other sales — it’s just the giveaways — and for some reason that report cost me a $150.
It’s been incredibly gratifying helping everyone going through a tough time right now. It’s something I plan to keep doing, though hopefully not because of these pesky global pandemic things, that have ruined more brunches than cheap prosecco and broken heels.
After that, you’ll have to wait for my Spooky Samhain sale.
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If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.
Look, there’s a lot of training out there. If it’s not expensive, it’s outdated, and that’s not fair to you.
Getting a quality, up to date education in SQL Server performance tuning should be affordable, even when there’s not a global pandemic.
That’s what I’m looking to provide to you, dear reader.
You’re a DBA or Developer who needs to buckle down and focus on performance tuning SQL Server, and you need a clear path to gain understanding and expertise. Maybe you need to learn about something that you’re seeing in a query you’re trying to tune. It could be parameter sniffing; it could be a key lookup — doesn’t matter.
You’re busy, and you don’t have hours or days to watch long courses, hoping what you need to learn is in there. Over here, you can zoom to what you care about, and spend focused time learning about it. No distractions, no fast forwarding, no trying to remember where the solution to your problem was.
Whether you need to know how to fix a problem quickly, or you want to deeply understand it and gain knowledge you can use for the rest of your career, my training library has got you covered.
Best of all, learning doesn’t stop when the video ends. I’m here to help you keep learning.
I’m Erik, and all I focus on is SQL Server performance tuning.
Queries, indexes, and hardware are my breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Oxford commas are light snacks.
Right now, I’ve got over 24 hours of training videos dedicated to those subjects available at prices that can’t be beat.
Unless you have a coupon!
And you do! Wow! What a sales pitch. Four seams on that one.
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If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.
I know, it’s tough to think about the tropical days of March in Chicago while you’re chattering your way through January. But for some of you, this is about how long it takes for you to get an expense approved and a day off. You’ll wanna be first in line once AP’s ink pads thaw out.
If your job is performance tuning SQL Server, and you’ve had it with struggling from one CPU fire to another, then you need to come to my precon. It’s taking place Friday March 20, in the lead up to SQL Saturday Chicago, which is a fantastic event.
I’m going to teach you how to solve the tough problems you have today with a mix of query and index tuning. You’ll walk out the door with new ways to think about performance tuning, and creative approaches to those queries that just seem totally untuneable.
For a limited time, use the coupon code “newyorkpizza” for $50 off the price of admission. That expires in February, so use it while you can.
Thanks for reading!
If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.
Everyone loves a deal, and if you’re attending SQL Saturday Chicago, here’s a great one on my precon, Premium Performance Tuning.
The coupon code “whatever” will get you $75 off. It’s only got 10 uses, so hurry on over and use it before you miss out.
GO GO GO
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If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.
If you’re planning on attending SQL Saturday Washington, DC, why not play hooky from work and spend the day with me learning about all the atrocities SQL Server is capable of?
I’m going to be delivering my Total Server Tuning material, which has been a hit at a whole bunch of events this past year. It’s an eye-opening full day of training where you’ll find out all my favorite ways that things can go wrong with SQL Server hardware, queries, and indexes.
And of course, how you can outsmart SQL Server.
Which is pretty hard.
Like, doctors work on it and stuff.
Attendees has a choice to either follow along with me on their laptops, or just watch in horror as familiar events unfold before their very eyes.
If you want to follow along, grab a copy of the StackOverflow2013 database. It’s about a 10GB download, which turns into a ~60GB database.
Fair warning: if you’re gonna follow along, you’re gonna have a tough time on skimpy laptop hardware. My personal laptop is 64GB of RAM and some pretty fast cores. At least they were until Intel started patching things. Most demos are on SQL Server 2017, but I’m going to be showing you stuff from SQL Server 2019 as well.
See you there!
If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.
If you need a speaker for your User Group, SQL Saturday, or other conference, drop me a line!
I have lots of great material about performance tuning queries and indexes that I’m psyched about sharing.
I’m also available for in-person paid training on the same subjects, whether it’s a full day pre-con or corporate training for your staff.
Like my blog content, video content, or writing style?
Or, whatever, maybe you’re just lonely?
If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.
I’ll be presenting The SQL Server Performance Tasting Menu.
You’re a DBA or Developer, and you’ve been using SQL Server for a few years.
You know there are different ways to make queries faster, but you’re not sure when to use them.
I’m Erik Darling, and I’ll be your sommelier for the evening.
Over several courses of delicious demos, I’ll show you the types of performance problems different tuning techniques pair well with, and which ones to avoid.
When we’re done, you’ll understand exactly what patterns to look for when you’re troubleshooting slow queries, and how to approach them.
You’ll have the secret recipe for gourmet queries.
I’m doing a full training day for NESQL
I hope to add more to the list in the coming months.
If you’re looking for remote speakers, hit me up!
If you want to put on a full training day, hit me up!
If you need a SQL Saturday precon, hit me up!
I have stuff.
Thanks for reading!
If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.
If you’re coming to my precon, and really, I appreciate that you all chose to learn from me:
Join the Slack channel! Forgive their recent logo sins, and hang out in there to ask questions, yell at me, or ask when lunch is.
You can do that by going to http://sqlslack.com/ and entering your email address to get an invite. Once you’re in, you’ll wanna join #erikdarling-tuning.
If you wanna play along with any parts of the demos, you’ll wanna download this copy of the StackOverflow database.
Fair warning: if you’re gonna do this, do it well in advance. Downloading over public W-i-Fi is quite a gamble.
Check out all the other great sessions available that have seats remaining in them.
Thanks for reading!
If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.
From Madchester to Madison, I’m making the rounds this year to make sure you know where SQL Server keeps the bodies buried.
I’m excited to announce that I have a regular session as well as a full day precon.
The speaker lineup is PHENOMENAL, including Joe Obbish who absolutely kills it with column store.
If you’re from that neck of the woods, I’d encourage you to make the trip.
It’s my first time in town, and I’m sure I’ll have lots of questions like “what smells like Chicago?”
See you there!
If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that and need to solve performance problems quickly.