{"id":5025,"date":"2019-12-18T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T04:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/paul\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:24:33","slug":"wait-statistics-workshop-at-sqlbits-in-london-2020-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wait-statistics-workshop-at-sqlbits-in-london-2020-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait statistics workshop at SQLBits in London 2020 &#8211; finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\L2019\/\\L12\/\\LMarketingPaul.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\L2019\/\\L12\/\\LMarketingPaul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;re coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/sqlbits.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SQLBits<\/a> finally! Both Kimberly and I will be there for the first time in London in March\/April &#8211; at long last the dates work for us &#8211; plus Erin will be there again too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The training day schedule for the\u00a0conference has been announced, and I will be presenting a full-day preconference workshop on Tuesday, 31st March. My workshop, <a href=\"https:\/\/sqlbits.com\/information\/event20\/Performance_Troubleshooting_using_Waits_and_Latches\/trainingdetails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Performance Troubleshooting using Waits and Latches<\/a>,\u00a0is my favorite thing to teach (yes, even more than corruption and DBCC CHECKDB!) and I really love helping people understand the common waits and debunking myths and misconceptions around them.\u00a0Don&#8217;t waste time when it comes to performance troubleshooting; wait statistics are the easiest route to understanding your performance problems and I want to help you get there faster!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;ve heard really good things about SQLBits so we&#8217;re really looking forward to going &#8211; hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PS\u00a0Note that this will be the only chance to see us in Europe\u00a0in 2020 as we won&#8217;t be back with Immersion Events in the UK until 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re coming to SQLBits finally! 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