SQLskills holiday gift to you: all 2014 Insider videos

As we all wind down for the 2015 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say ‘thank you’ for all your support during 2015, and what better gift than more free content?!

As many of you know, I publish a bi-weekly newsletter to more than 13,000 subscribers that contains an editorial on a SQL Server topic, a demo video, and a book review of my most recently completed book. We’re making all the 2014 demo videos available  so everyone can watch them – 22 videos in all, mostly in WMV format. I did the same thing the last few years for the 2013 videos2012 videos, and 2011 videos.

Here are the details:

  • January 2014: Using Plan Explorer to find missing indexes (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
  • January 2014: Statistics updates and query plan recompilations (video | demo code)
  • February 2014: Exploring the Lock Pages In Memory setting (video | demo code)
  • February 2014: Getting started with Service Broker (video | demo code)
  • March 2014: Investigating FGCB_ADD_REMOVE latch contention (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
  • March 2014: Investigating CPU utilization issues on VMware (video | demo code)
  • March 2014: Creating a simple server monitoring system (video | demo code)
  • April 2014: Investigating sort operators in query plans (video | demo code)
  • May 2014: Investigating page split internals (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
  • May 2014: Examining instance configuration options (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
  • June 2014: Using Extended Events predicates correctly (video | demo code)
  • June 2014: Investigating the plan cache (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
  • July 2014: Investigating INCLUDEd columns (video | demo code)
  • July 2014: Part 2 on investigatng INCLUDEd columns (video | demo code)
  • August 2014: Using framing with window functions (video | demo code)
  • August 2014: Investigating join order forcing problems (from Pluralsight, MOV format) (video | demo code)
  • September 2014: Investigating global trace flags (video | demo code)
  • September 2014: Plan invalidation causes (from Pluralsight, MP4 format) (video | no demo code)
  • October 2014: Investigating reverse-order deadlocks (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
  • October 2014: Finding hidden plan costs using Extended Events (video | demo code)
  • November 2014: Using OFFSET and FETCH (video | demo code)
  • December 2014: Query plan operators from columnstore indexes (video | demo code)

If you want to see the 2015 videos before next December, get all the newsletter back-issues, and follow along as the newsletters come out, just sign-up at http://www.SQLskills.com/Insider. No strings attached, no marketing or advertising, just free content.

Happy Holidays and enjoy the videos!

5 thoughts on “SQLskills holiday gift to you: all 2014 Insider videos

  1. Hi Paul,

    First of all, I wish you (plus family) a great new year :)
    Just a note, the video from May 2014 (Examining instance configuration options (from Pluralsight)) is pointing to another video (about page split).
    []’s

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