{"id":4577,"date":"2015-12-15T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T00:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/paul\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2016-12-05T03:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T11:31:43","slug":"sqlskills-holiday-gift-to-you-all-2014-insider-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sqlskills-holiday-gift-to-you-all-2014-insider-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"SQLskills holiday gift to you: all 2014 Insider videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we all wind down for the 2015 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say \u2018thank you\u2019 for all your support during 2015, and what better gift than more free content?!<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019re\u00a0making all the 2014 demo videos available \u00a0so\u00a0everyone can watch them\u00a0\u2013 22 videos in all, mostly\u00a0in WMV format. I did the same thing the last few years for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sqlskills-holiday-gift-2013-insider-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">2013 videos<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sqlskills-holiday-gift-to-you-all-2012-insider-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 videos<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sqlskills-holiday-gift-to-you-all-2011-insider-videos-on-youtube\/\" target=\"_blank\">2011 videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January 2014: Using Plan Explorer to find missing indexes (from Pluralsight) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/January2014InsiderTipPS.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201401DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>January 2014:\u00a0Statistics updates and query plan recompilations (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/January2014InsiderTip2.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201401DemoCode2.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>February 2014: Exploring the Lock Pages In Memory setting\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/February2014InsiderTip.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201402DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>February 2014:\u00a0Getting started with Service Broker (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/February2014InsiderTip2.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201402DemoCode2.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>March 2014: Investigating FGCB_ADD_REMOVE latch contention (from Pluralsight)\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/March2014InsiderTipPS.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201403DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>March 2014: Investigating CPU utilization issues on VMware (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/March2014InsiderTip2.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201403DemoCode2.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>March 2014: Creating a simple server monitoring system (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/March2014InsiderTip3.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201403DemoCode3.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>April 2014:\u00a0Investigating sort operators in query plans (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/April2014InsiderTip2.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201404DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>May 2014:\u00a0Investigating page split internals (from Pluralsight) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/May2014InsiderTipPS.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201405DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>May 2014:\u00a0Examining instance configuration options (from Pluralsight) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/May2014InsiderTip2PS.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201405DemoCode2.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>June 2014:\u00a0Using Extended Events predicates correctly (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/June2014InsiderTip.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201406DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>June 2014:\u00a0Investigating the plan cache (from Pluralsight) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/June2014InsiderTip2PS.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201406DemoCode2PS.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>July 2014:\u00a0Investigating INCLUDEd columns (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/July2014InsiderTip.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201407DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>July 2014:\u00a0Part 2 on investigatng INCLUDEd columns (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/July2014InsiderTip2.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201407DemoCode2.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>August 2014:\u00a0Using framing with window functions (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/August2014InsiderTip.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201408DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>August 2014:\u00a0Investigating join order forcing problems (from Pluralsight, MOV format) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/August2014InsiderTip2PS.mov\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201408DemoCode2PS.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>September 2014:\u00a0Investigating global trace flags (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/September2014InsiderTip.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201409DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>September 2014:\u00a0Plan invalidation causes (from Pluralsight, MP4 format)\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/September2014InsiderTip2PS.mov\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| no demo code)<\/li>\n<li>October 2014:\u00a0Investigating reverse-order deadlocks (from Pluralsight) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/October2014InsiderTipPS.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201410DemoCodePS.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>October 2014: Finding hidden plan costs using Extended Events\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/October2014InsiderTip2.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201410DemoCode2.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>November 2014:\u00a0Using OFFSET and FETCH (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/November2014InsiderTip.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201411DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>December 2014:\u00a0Query plan operators from columnstore indexes (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/December2014InsiderTip.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/HolidayContent\/Insider201412DemoCode.zip\" target=\"_blank\">demo code<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/joincommunity.asp\">http:\/\/www.SQLskills.com\/Insider<\/a>. No strings attached, no marketing or advertising, just free content.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays and enjoy the videos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all wind down for the 2015 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say \u2018thank you\u2019 for all your support during 2015, and what better gift than more free content?! 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