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Webcast Recording – How to Get Your First Job as A Database Administrator
You’d love to become a Database Administrator, but how do you get your foot in the door? Ten years ago, Kendra Little was in your position. Since then, she landed her first job as a SQL Server DBA,...
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Want to Work With Brent, Jeremiah, and Kendra?
We’re looking for a few good database professionals. Well, actually, right now we’re just looking for one. Things are going really well here at Brent Ozar PLF, and it’s time to grow our family. We’re...
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How to Succeed in Database Development Without Really Trying
We mentioned a lot of books in the webcast. Most of them are listed over on our list of SQL Server Books for DBAs. These are my favorites books for for database developers: Joe Celko’s Thinking in...
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Brent Ozar Talks SQL 2012 and MCMs on RunAs Radio
Richard Campbell’s RunAs Radio podcast is a relaxed, fun discussion between IT professionals like sysadmins and DBAs who have to manage infrastructure. Richard’s a hoot to talk to, and I really like...
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Meet Brent Ozar PLF’s Employee #1
Just a week ago, we asked who wanted to work with Brent Ozar PLF. We talked about our benefits, our health check approach with clients, and our plans for Employee #1. The emails came in fast and...
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How to Talk To Your Boss About World Backup Day
March 31st is World Backup Day, and while most of the press will be focusing on backing up your priceless lolcat photos, it’s still a good time to talk with management about your database backups. Your...
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Let’s Talk About Joins
If you want to learn more about the different join algorithms, consult Wikipedia for an introduction to the basic material and links to additional information: Nested Loop Join Merge Join Hash Join...
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How Fast is Your SAN? (Or How Slow?)
A few years ago, Erika and I went to the VW dealership to trade in her old Jetta and get a new one. The choice of a Jetta was already a foregone conclusion – she loved VWs at the time – and it was...
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How Fast Does Your SAN Need to Be for SQL Server?
Let’s oversimplify the bejeezus out of this complex problem. Suspend your disbelief for a second and work with me: We have a database server hosting just one 100GB table. Sure, in reality, we’ve got...
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An Introduction to VLDBs Video
Big data’s grandpa is the Very Large DataBase (VLDB) and we’ve been doing VLDBs in SQL Server for years. Making the jump from managing 10-100GB databases to the terabyte level can be intimidating, but...
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How to Interview Storage Vendors
Buying SAN gear is hard work. You have to compare vendors based on performance, capacity, reliability, ease of implementation, quality of support, and of course, price. When I’m working with a client...
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Why Is My Virtual SQL Server So Slow?
After we virtualize SQL Server, troubleshooting performance becomes a lot tougher. There’s more moving parts like shared storage and VMware, and we DBAs don’t usually get access to those tools to find...
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Hash Partitioning, SQL Server, and Scaling Writes
At first glance, SQL Server’s partitioning seems like it should be an easy way to solve problems inserting data into busy tables. If the writes are spread across many partitions it only makes sense...
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DBA Darwin Awards: T-SQL Edition Webcast
Working in the SQL Server emergency room, I see a lot of self-inflicted performance wounds. That query looks good, and it looks like it’s using an index – but why does it take so long? The query runs...
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Breaking News: Changes to Microsoft SQL Server Certifications
Microsoft Learning published new information today which changes the certification landscape in a big way. Think you understand how to get certified? You’ve got a set of new terms and new rules to...
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Maintenance Plans and Roombas Suck – in a Good Way
Every now and then, I hear an experienced DBA say, “SQL Server maintenance plans for backups, indexes, and statistics? What, are you kidding me? Nobody uses maintenance plans because they suck.” They...
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Writing Better Conference Abstracts and Presentations
The annual PASS Summit is now accepting abstracts for the fall, and this year, let’s get you a speaker slot. Before you submit an abstract, do your research. Here’s some of my past posts about...
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SQL Server 2012 Certification Changes Video
In 2000, we worked on our MCSE and MCDBA certifications. In 2005, Microsoft changed things up with the MCITP and MCM programs. Things are about to change again – we’ve got the new MCSA, MCSE, and MCSM...
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SQL Server Virtualization Q&A
In my recent “Why Is My Virtual SQL Server So Slow?” webcast, we got a lot of great questions in chat. Here’s some of the highlights: Question: “Why would I virtualize a 4-core server and turn it into...
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SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups in AWS
Many companies are investigating a move into cloud hosting. With the recent release of SQL Server 2012, these very same companies are also looking at a migration to SQL Server 2012 to take advantage of...
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