The 20th Anniversary of the SQL Slammer Worm
Twenty years ago this month (next Wednesday to be exact), sysadmins and database administrators started noticing extremely high network traffic related to problems with their SQL Servers. The SQL...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About SQL Server
Y’all just never run out of interesting questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento! I’m impressed, got another great round today. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:25 Chrisbell: Recently we’ve...
View ArticleBite-Sized Office Hours: Q&A on TikTok
Wanna learn about SQL Server and the Microsoft data platform, but you don’t wanna sit through long videos? Enjoy short videos on TikTok? I’ve got just the thing: I’m taking the best Q&A from Office...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Ten Minutes of SQL Server Answers
ChatGPT, Resource Governor, manually created stats, Always Encrypted, and as always, fragmentation: let’s answer your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered today: 00:00...
View ArticleOffice Hours, ChatGPT Edition: AI Answers 4 of Your Questions
In a recent Office Hours post, David Reabow suggested letting ChatGPT answer a few of the questions y’all posted at http://pollgab.com/room/brento/. Brilliant! Let’s see how it does. I purposely...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Quickie Before Dinner
Before heading out to dinner, I went through your highly-upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Start 00:20 Mert: Hi Brent, what is the...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: 22 Good Questions and a Stinker
Lots of good questions on today’s broadcast! If you’d like to submit one, go to https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me cover. Here’s what we covered today: 00:00 Start...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Snowy Michigan Edition
We went up to Michigan to see my dad’s side of the family, and the snow came down just in time for our arrival. Always love the fresh snow look. So I stood outside and took your top-voted questions...
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Free Training Coming Up! March is PowerShell Month.
You’re a production database administrator responsible for the health, security, and uptime of many database servers. You’ve been pointing and clicking your way through SSMS for years, scripting out...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Quiet Sunday Edition
While waiting for the dry cleaner to open, I went live to stream a quiet session going through a bunch of y’all’s questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start...
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Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? February 2023 Edition
It’s Valentine’s day – let’s do some matchmaking! Is your company hiring for a database position as of February 2023? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About SQL Server
Y’all post and upvote questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, and I stream sessions on my Twitch.tv channel where I answer ’em and chat with the audience. 00:00 Start 02:09 Chad Baldwin: Hey...
View Article[Video] Office Hours Brought to You by Quest Software
Today’s episode of Office Hours is brought to you by Quest Software. I went through your top-voted questions from PollGab.com/room/brento, and, uh, kinda looked like I was sponsored by Fendi while...
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Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for February 2023
Thanks to this technique to run SQL Server on Apple Silicon chips, I’m now developing exclusively on my Mac! I’ve been using a Mac for over 15 years, but in the past, I’ve always used Windows at some...
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Office Hours: Short Text Answers Edition
Not all of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long-winded responses. Brandon: Do you seen a rise in json queries to address impedance mismatch between data/objects? I...
View ArticleFind 40 Problems in This Stored Procedure.
Aaron Bertrand posted a challenge: We’re going to use the AdventureWorks sample database (get your copy here), where the folks in marketing requested a list of users to e-mail a new promotional...
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Can You Nest Transactions in SQL Server?
To find out, let’s set up a simple status log table:DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.StatusLog; CREATE TABLE dbo.StatusLog (TimeItHappened DATETIME2 PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, Step VARCHAR(20)); GO And then let’s...
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Learn PowerShell in 30 Minutes a Day, Free, Starting Now.
The clock starts now! You’re a production database administrator responsible for the health, security, and uptime of many database servers. You’ve been pointing and clicking your way through SSMS for...
View ArticleI’m Coming to Gothenburg and Oslo This Fall!
Back in 2020 before the wheels came off the world, I’d scheduled visits to Gothenburg and Oslo for their annual SQL Server events. Now that things are back to normal, it’s back on! Data Saturday...
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It’s Monday. Get Back to Learning PowerShell.
You’re a production database administrator responsible for the health, security, and uptime of many database servers. You’ve been pointing and clicking your way through SSMS for years, scripting out...
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