Brent Ozar

You need to speed up a SQL Server app, but you only want to make index changes. You don’t want to buy hardware, change SQL Server, or change the code. You need to get creative, fast.

Your job is making SQL Server go faster, but you haven’t been to a performance tuning class since 2016 came out.

Your job is making SQL Server go faster, but you haven’t been to a performance tuning class since 2016 came out.

Your users are frustrated because the app is too slow, and you have to fix it. Brent Ozar will share his proven methodologies to tune with indexes, SQL Server settings, and hardware.

Your users are frustrated because the app is too slow, and you have to fix it. Brent Ozar will share his proven methodologies to tune with indexes, SQL Server settings, and hardware.

Your users are frustrated because the app is too slow, and you have to fix it. Brent Ozar will share his proven methodologies to tune with indexes, SQL Server settings, and hardware.

Your users are frustrated because the app is too slow, and you have to fix it. Brent Ozar will share his proven methodologies to tune with indexes, SQL Server settings, and hardware.

Your users are frustrated because the app is too slow, and you have to fix it. Brent Ozar will share his proven methodologies to tune with indexes, SQL Server settings, and hardware.

Your users are frustrated because the app is too slow, and you have to fix it. Brent Ozar will share his proven methodologies to tune with indexes, SQL Server settings, and hardware.

When you're the one who has to plan, buy, set up, and troubleshoot production SQL Servers, you need to know about hardware, SAN storage, SSDs, virtualization, and more. Microsoft Certified Master Brent Ozar will give you confidence on tough topics.

Isn't it awkward when someone asks you, "So, where do you see yourself 5 years from now?" Brent Ozar will share how he analyzed the data job market to build his career path.

If you want to work for yourself, you need to be able to sell yourself. I know, I hate it too - it feels gross when I write it that way. I'm Brent Ozar. You recognize my name, that's why you wanna learn this from me.

You keep getting warnings and emails about deadlocks, but let's be honest: you're not really sure how they happen or what to do about it. Brent Ozar will show one, use sp_BlitzLock to analyze it, then fix it.

You've been performance tuning queries and indexes for a few years, but lately, you've been running into problems you can't explain. Could it be RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE, THREADPOOL, or lock escalation?

You're a DBA who's struggled with Perfmon metrics and Profiler. You're facing a sea of confusing numbers, and you don't know where to focus first. Microsoft Certified Master Brent Ozar will give you a friendly introduction to wait statistics.

You don't buy a lot of servers, but you're about to deploy SQL Server, and you only get one chance to make it right. Brent Ozar will boil down everything you need to know into just a few simple decisions including SQL Edition, sockets, and RAM.

How does SQL Server build results? We'll role play: Brent Ozar will be an end user sending in queries, and you'll be SQL Server. This session is for people who are comfortable writing queries, but not with indexes, statistics, and sargability.

Ever wonder how someone else does it? There’s no right way or wrong way, but in this session you can peer over Brent’s shoulder (virtually) while he takes a few Stack Overflow queries and tries various techniques to make them faster.

These two technologies can make a very big – and very bad – difference in how your SQL Server performs. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get the real, honest lowdown from a virtualization administrator, a SAN administrator, and a DBA? Wouldn’t it be even better if one person had done all three, and could give you the pros and cons of each point of view? That person is Brent Ozar, a Microsoft Certified Master who’s been there and done that.

PANIC IN THE DATACENTER! Your databases are approaching - or surpassed - the Terrible Terabyte mark. You're pouring money into the SAN, but your data isn't pouring back out as fast as you want. You're terrified to DBCCs or index maintenance because everything takes forever, and you don't have big maintenance windows.