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Crazy, crazy end-of-year sale!

Our end-of-year sale is here and the discounts are insane! For example: Our signature BlackBelt Bundle is usually $6,995; on sale for $1,999! Performance Tuning Bundle (IEPTO1 and IEPTO2) is usually...

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The Curious Case of… tracking page compression success rates

(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us...

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The Curious Case of… data compression caching

(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us...

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The Curious Case of… random failing log shipping restores

(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us...

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The Curious Case of… eager writing and minimally-logged operations

(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us...

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The Curious Case of… disconnected AG secondary replica and transaction log...

(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us...

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The Curious Case of… community

(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us...

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Mentoring 2023 – want some help from me?

[Edit 12/16/2022:the deadline for submissions is now closed.] In 2015 I mentored 54 people for six months. In 2020 I mentored 37 people on-and-off for over a year. In 2023 I’ll be mentoring ?… Why do I...

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The Mentoring Class of 2023

(Meeps, one of our seven cats, helping with the selection process…) Since my first round of community mentoring back in 2015, when I mentored 54 people for six months, I’ve been asked periodically...

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The Curious Case of…. alcoholism

Hello, my name is Paul, and I’m a high-functioning alcoholic. For the last ten years or so, I’ve been an alcoholic. A maintenance drinker – with no nasty behavior, abuse, day-drinking, DUIs, or things...

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