I was making myself a drink to film Office Hours and I realized I should just film it in my home bar. I mixed myself a gin & tonic and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento:
Here’s what we discussed:
- 00:00 Start
- 00:50 MyTeaGotCold: Can you name anyone who radically disagrees with you? After nearly 50 questions, I trust you too much and want to hear from the dark side.
- 02:02 DataGuy: What are your thoughts on the Azure offerings of PostgreSQL vs AWS? Obviously you prefer AWS, but is Microsoft really that far behind? I ask because we are locked into Azure and are looking for opportunities to save on licensing for very specific apps.
- 03:13 DoesTimeReallyExist: Hi Brent! Do you have experience working with TimescaleDB? If so, how would you rate its performance?
- 03:21 Yusuf: Do you see foresee any issues granting the SHOW PLAN permission to a dev user so they can tune their queries for production SQL VM?
- 04:11 Dopinder: Will DBAs and software developers be replaced by AI in the next 5 years? How should they upskill to avoid obsolescence?
- 06:06 SportsFan101: Hey Brent, You have previously mentioned that the issue with open source is that when something breaks there is no one to call (no official support). I’ve never worked with open source. What do IT teams do when they encounter an issue with Open Source RDMS?
- 07:27 Mola Ram: How should we handle sending of emails from SQL Server so that recipients know why they are receiving an email and can opt out?
- 08:10 Mr. SqlSeeks: Perf issue caused by a new plan being generated. No idea why a different plan was built,. Days of research. Restructured the code. Now performs in all scenarios. Is it ever OK to stop looking for the root cause because you were able to fix it and spent days on research already?
- 09:43 Buttercup: Azure marketplace image installed SQL Server with master and msdb on C drive. Do you have recommended way to relocate or do we just need to suck it up?
- 10:17 nick: What should you be aware of when creating a database with enterprise level amount of tables
- 11:01 Rob DBA: Hi Brent! Working as more of an “Application DBA” wondering any points/methods you apply to determine a query is too far gone? Eg, slow with 88 joins to some very large tables where its doing heavy logic in the db that cant change.How to word rewrite to the business / devs?
- 13:49 Midlife DBA: Hi Brent, Have you had any experience with customers that have backup/recovery solutions like Rubrik or Cohesity? Any pros/cons you would be willing to share?
- 15:09 mailbox: Is SQL Server a good place to build a data lake? Any recommendations on DBMS that are designed for data lakes and offer good product support?
- 17:11 Vishnu: How good is your Internet when on the ship? Good enough to do day to day work?
- 18:04 Garthe Knight: What are your favorite 80’s TV shows?
- 18:41 Thomas Dolby: What’s your opinion of the azure feedback site used for SQL Server enhancements? Microsoft seems to advocate it on linked-in.