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Free SQL Server training during the quarantines

Brent Ozar did a nice gesture in these difficult times and gave away part of his training course for free. So if you really need to spice up your SQL server skills, this is really the training for you.

Start with the ‘How to Think Like the Engine’:

Then continue with the ‘Fundamentals of Index tuning’:

And if you want to go even deeper, take it to the next level with ‘Fundamentals of Query tuning’:

Thanks Brent for all the great (free) content!

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