Hi, Brent here! I'm really excited to welcome you to Fundamentals Week!

Before we get started, I need to make sure that we've covered the basics. In my free How to Think Like the Engine class, you'll learn the foundations of clustered and nonclustered indexes, statistics, memory grants, and sargability.

Then, watch the free How I Use the First Responder Kit class so you're familiar with the tools like sp_BlitzIndex and sp_BlitzCache that we'll be using extensively through these courses.

That alone doesn't guarantee that you'll be able to keep up in class, of course - but if you hadn't at least learned this much before starting, then you'd have been totally screwed, hahaha.

Audio will come through your computer speakers, so you'll want clear speakers or a set of headphones. (You don't have to worry about a microphone or webcam - other attendees won't see or hear you.)