Office Hours, Silent Film Edition
Hey, remember in yesterday’s video how I said I was having a really bad day? Well, here’s how bad it was – I recorded two videos in a row, and I forgot to turn my microphone on for the second video....
View Article[Video] Office Hours at Megunticook Falls in Camden, Maine
While in historic and beautiful Camden to hang out with friends, I went to Megunticook Falls and answered your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00...
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Why Haven’t You Disabled SA? Wrong Answers Only.
On social media, I asked folks, “Why haven’t you disabled the SA account in your SQL Servers? Wrong answers only.” The results were pretty funny: “I went a step further and also created an account...
View Article[Video] Office Hours in Camden Harbor
On an overcast morning in scenic Camden, Maine, I stood on the docks and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:54 Alma Fahlstrøm:...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Brent’s Cursed Technology Edition
I first answered these while standing at a harbor in Maine, but upon arriving home, I realized my camera had failed to record any audio. Doh! So I took the list of questions from...
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It’s Black Friday! Time to save big on SQL Server training.
My Annual Black Friday Sale is On! I’m running a giant Black Friday sale on my training courses! You can choose from Fundamentals, Mastering, or both. The Fundamentals package is best if you’ve never...
View ArticleBrentOzar.com Cyber Monday Week Sale
Every November, we run a huge sale here on my training courses, apps, and online services. Now’s your chance to talk to the boss and get the SQL Server and Azure SQL DB training that will help your...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Black Friday Promo Edition
In this episode, a lot of the questions triggered mentions of our Black Friday Sale, on now! Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:41 Pete: 1 NUMA, 2 NUMA, 3 NUMA, 4 NUMA, or More? 176 cores, 1.5 TB...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Live on Black Friday Edition
On Black Friday, I took a break from answering support emails to hit your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:41 MatthewsSQLServer: How...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Brent’s Cursed Technology Edition
I first answered these while standing at a harbor in Maine, but upon arriving home, I realized my camera had failed to record any audio. Doh! So I took the list of questions from...
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ChatDBA: ChatGPT 4 Answers 5 Office Hours Questions
Every now and then, someone asks a question on PollGab about why I don’t use ChatGPT to answer these questions. And sometimes, I wonder that myself – I wonder why people don’t put their questions into...
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Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? December 2023 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of December 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,...
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How Has Inflation Affected Your Salary? Let’s Find Out Together.
The 2020s have been tough: a pandemic, a recession, layoffs, and inflation. Inflation makes things particularly tricky because your costs for everything have risen a lot in the last year, but at the...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About SQL Server and Azure
In between client calls, I stop to review y’all’s top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered today: 00:00 Start 02:44 mailbox: Do DBA’s still need to be the only...
View ArticleWhat Would You Ask Your Predecessor? Get Answers with ChatGPT.
So many times in my career, I’ve come across a questionable query, table design, or server configuration decision, and I just wanted to reach out to The Last Person™ to find out what the hell they were...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Really Good Questions Edition
Y’all were on fire in this one! You posted great questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and I worked through ’em: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 04:06 DislikeEntityFramework: In AWS RDS, we...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Sunshine Edition
You know how this works: you posta the questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, and I giva the answers: Here’s what you asked in this episode: 00:00 Start 03:18 DBA in VA: I recently discovered...
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Interesting Aurora MySQL Feature: The Buffer Pool Survives Restarts
“Documentation! Hey, look at that.” Lemme start this off by saying this is probably irrelevant to you. (It’s irrelevant to me, too.) If you’re strapped for time, just skip past this blog post. This...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Wrong Side of the Bed Edition
I woke up on the wrong side of the bed after a nap. How does that even happen?!? To take the edge off, I poured myself a gin & tonic and went through your top-voted questions from...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: 21 Good Questions
This one is a 3-part episode: I take 21 questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento and then later, work on First Responder Kit pull requests. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:08 MooneyFlyer:...
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