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Read the Reviews
Monthly Video Crew™ ($59.00 / month)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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Thank you for another great course! I've been able to immediately apply some of the strategies/monitoring/etc. to my team's internal testing servers, and it's been helpful to be able to monitor the system with a high degree of confidence as we develop new code.kwimmers
2018-01-25 14:00:59 
SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Tuning Problem Queries in Table Partitioning
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I liked this course. There are not many courses focused on tuning partitioned tables along with column indexes out there and Kendra does cover this topic in a brief and concise way that does not cloud you with too much information.Fernando
2017-12-28 07:52:36 Monthly Video Crew™ ($59.00 / month)
Review for course: Query Tuning with Hints & Optimizer Hotfixes
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Your courses so far are the best among numerous courses i have attended. Your explanations and demonstrations makes it easy to apply the concept learnt in my given work situations.benson sibanda
2017-12-27 14:39:11 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Query Tuning with Hints & Optimizer Hotfixes
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Kendra always explains things and concepts very easy to understand. This is such a great curse and I really enjoy every part of it. I learned a lot.mvillegascuellar
2017-11-16 13:26:12 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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Great course! Makes some very complicated issues a little less complicated so thank you very much! Looking forward to get started with some other courses.daniel.dehaan
2017-11-16 07:57:12 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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The BEST course I have ever taken! I think the explanation of Isolation Levels was the best too! Thank you so much.Isaac
2017-11-10 07:34:05 Monthly Video Crew™ ($59.00 / month)
Review for course: Query Tuning with Hints & Optimizer Hotfixes
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This has been another enjoyable & helpful course from Kendra. They are well organized and logical to follow, and I've been able to implement several ideas in testing poor performing queries but think about ways I can improve testing of new queries going into our environment. Thank you!Heather Sullivan
2017-10-20 09:25:28 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Why Creating an Index Can Slow Down a Query
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Excellent course, well-produced. Especially useful because it gives upsides and downsides to different solutions and discusses how selecting the "best" solution may depend on different factors.paul.kemner
2017-09-12 13:22:24 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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Fantastic course. Doesn't assume you know too many basics and provides straight forward, hands-on approach to using this not just learning about it.George
2017-08-14 08:18:36 Monthly Video Crew™ ($59.00 / month)
Review for course: Why Creating an Index Can Slow Down a Query
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Great course, really nice optimizer training.vercelli vercelli
2017-07-05 08:13:26 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Query Tuning with Hints & Optimizer Hotfixes
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Kendra's obvious enthusiasm for her subject make it a joy to watch her videos. You can't help but learn.Ian Turner
2017-06-23 07:55:55 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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This was an excellent course! It really helped me to put more of the pieces together on deadlocks. I learned a lot and will be putting these new learned skills to good use!
I love your style of teaching. You make it easy and fun to learn!Laurie
2017-06-02 16:33:33 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Tuning Problem Queries in Table Partitioning
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I highly recommend this course to everyone that think partitioning a table is a no brainer. It helps me to understand the pros and cons of this technique.Steve
2017-04-21 12:58:33 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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Excellent resources to understand deadlocks, as a DBA this is really a gem. Take it if you can, you will not regret it.2017-04-20 15:02:07 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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Thank you, Kendra! A well structured is always a pleasure to watch. My favorite part was giving code names (e.g. sneaky blocker) to different locking types. That really helped to organize my existing knowledge!Vladimir
2017-04-13 12:34:16 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Tuning Problem Queries in Table Partitioning
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This course presented the topic really well! I have read about most of these partitioned query challenges in small chunks on various blogs, but this course does a really good job of putting all of those challenges together in a way that made it really digestible and easy to remember.Jeremy
2017-03-31 17:39:30 Monthly Video Crew™ ($59.00 / month)
Review for course: Tuning Problem Queries in Table Partitioning
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Awesome Session (Tuning Problem Queries in Table Partitioning), makes me want to dig into ColumnStore Indexing more. I really like the way you break up the session and have the Question at the end of each session, also the interview question at the end are really helpful.Louis
2017-03-15 12:05:25 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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Great trainning !
Like the short video, it's easier to go through it even when extra busy 😉
Having the demo to reproduce is really nice too.
Thanks !Dominique
2017-03-15 11:03:13 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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Great course!! Really valuable information, and useful for a memory refresh on the topics. Great demos.Bruno
2017-03-11 10:39:20 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Tuning Problem Queries in Table Partitioning
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A great course on tuning queries against partitioned tables. Kendra covers several different types of query anti-patterns when it comes to partitioning, in both a fun but thorough manner. I would recommend this course to any developer or DBA who has to deal, or will potentially deal with partitioned tables.Daniel
2017-03-08 20:14:21 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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Great course. Simple explanations with great demos.Razvan
2017-03-08 09:31:12 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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This was a really fun course. I always like it when a teacher takes a topic beyond the basic definition of the problem and solution, and into the guts underneath--you learn so much more about a topic when you start to develop a sense of the topic's etymology. The interview questions section was a really nice touch; I'm trying to change jobs at the moment, and Kendra gives some great framing on how to show off understanding of the technology. Great stuff; can't wait for more.dlackovic
2017-03-03 11:50:17 SQL Learning League ($399.00 / year)
Review for course: Troubleshooting Blocking and Deadlocks for Beginners
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Just finished up this course and it was fantastic. The presentation of the content was in small enough pieces that made it easy to do during a break or lunch. The content was very clear and well presented and the demo scripts were easy to walk through. Great job and I am looking forward to the next one.Jeff
2017-03-02 05:08:49