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Free Azure Networking Training This Week
To celebrate this month’s launch of our new class, Fundamentals of Azure Networking for the Data Professional, we’re making one video a day completely free. Here’s what’s on tap this week: July 17:...
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SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Summer 2023
The short story for this quarter: SQL Server 2022 adoption rates have stalled, even backtracked, and it doesn’t appear to be due to the cloud, either. For the long story: ever wonder how fast people...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: While Stack Overflow is Down
Stack Overflow was down, so y’all posted questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and I gave ’em my best shot. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 04:33 Amir: Does Az-900 worth the effort and...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: SO MANY Good Questions
Seriously, how do y’all keep coming up with so many great questions? I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento/ on a live stream on my Twitch channel, like I do on...
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Finishing Up Your Free Azure Networking Training
To celebrate this month’s launch of our new class, Fundamentals of Azure Networking for the Data Professional, we’re making one video a day completely free. Here’s what’s on tap this week: July 24:...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Azure SQL DB & SQL Server Questions
Post your SQL Server and Azure SQL DB questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to hear me discuss. Here’s what we discussed in this episode: 00:00 Start 02:47...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Overheating Cadillac Edition
I took your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento before heading out to pick up my Cadillac from the mechanic. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 04:50 JudgeDredd: Hi Brent, have you ever...
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Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? August 2023 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of August 2023? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring,...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Stump Me With Your Data Questions
There are only a couple weeks left in this summer’s marathon of Office Hours sessions, which means there’s limited time left to ask your toughest database problems (not trivia questions) at...
View Article[Video] Office Hours While the Pool Refills
I step away from the backyard long enough to take y’all’s questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Start 02:23 Stockburn: Hi Brent, we are using...
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Analyzing Prices of SQL Server Books, New & Used
While on a road trip, Richie stopped by a used bookstore (or would that be used book store?) and made an amusing observation about the relative value of different SQL Server books. I just had to go...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Extended Answers Edition
Y’all posted so many good questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento that I went longer than usual this time: Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Start 02:17 Tanchenglai: Hi Brent, recently...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Stump Me On SQL Server
I went through the top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento and discussed ’em live on my Twitch channel. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:39 tanchenglai: Hi Brent! We bought...
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The PASS Summit Lineup Is Out and Registration is Open!
This year’s PASS Data Community Summit is November 13-17 in Seattle. (No online version is available this year – you gotta be there in person.) If you’ve attended in person before, you already know the...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Before Heading Out on Vacation
I took a break from packing my bags long enough to answer your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 02:42 T-man: Hi BO. A friend has multiple...
View Article[Video] Office Hours in Telluride, Colorado
We headed up to the mountains to get away from the Vegas heat. Before the sun rose, I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:36...
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Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for August 2023
Turns out y’all actually work over the summer – there are actually cool new features this month! I think I’m actually going to have to record updated sp_BlitzIndex, sp_BlitzLock, and sp_BlitzQueryStore...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Really Long (and Really Short) Answers
Today’s batch of questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento requires some really long answers, and some are right to the point. 00:00 Start 02:13 Eh? Aye…: As DBAs, how can we best prepare for the...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: I Need Your Help with These
Today, I need your help with some of the top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Chime in in the comments: 00:00 Start 00:52 Accidental DBA: Hello Brent. Thank you for keeping your...
View ArticleFree Webcast: Avoiding Deadlocks by Tuning Queries
You’ve been getting more and more deadlock errors, and users are starting to complain. You’re wondering if your queries are the root cause, and if so, what you should do to fix ’em. In a fast-paced...
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