The Annual Data Professional Salary Survey Closes This Week!
Take the Data Professional Salary Survey now. The 2020s have been tough: a pandemic, a recession, layoffs, and inflation. Inflation makes things particularly tricky because your costs for everything...
View Article[Video] Working on First Responder Kit Pull Requests
For this month’s First Responder Kit releases, I worked through most of the pull requests live on my Twitch channel. If you wanna get a glimpse of what it’s like being an open source maintainer, this...
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Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for December 2023
New this month: more work on letting sp_Blitz run with limited permissions, nicer Markdown output, sp_BlitzLock compatibility with Managed Instances, and more. Wanna watch me use it? Take the class. To...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Holiday Speed Round Edition
Most of the https://pollgab.com/room/brento questions from this episode had really short and sweet answers. Let’s take a break for the holidays and knock ’em out: Here’s what we covered this episode:...
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Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? January 2024 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of January 2024? 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: Oddball Questions Edition
The last Office Hours of 2023 featured some oddball questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Not bad, just … odd. https://youtu.be/prkpWssHsaE Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 03:04...
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Query Exercise: Find Foreign Key Problems
For 2024, I’m trying something new: weekly homework challenges! For this week, let’s say we’ve decided to implement foreign keys, and we need to find data that’s going to violate our desired keys....
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Announcing the 2024 Data Professional Salary Survey Results.
This is the 8th year now that we’ve been running our annual Data Professional Salary Survey, and I was really curious to see what the results would hold this year. How would inflation and layoffs...
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Find Foreign Key Problems: Answers & Discussion
Your Query Exercise was to find foreign key problems: data that might stop us from successfully implementing foreign keys in the Stack Overflow database. Question 1: Write queries to find the...
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Query Exercise: Find Posts with the Wrong CommentCount
For 2024, I’m trying something new: weekly homework challenges! For this week’s query challenge, we’re going to do some data validation. Pop open the Stack Overflow database and check out the...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About the Microsoft Data Platform
Forgive the hoarse voice – I’m recovering from something COVID-ish. I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento and did my best: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start...
View ArticleWe’re Starting to Automate Testing for the First Responder Kit.
Brent says: It’s really funny how the world works. I wrote what you see below in December 2023 and scheduled it for publication on January 16th (today), hoping to get help from the community to get...
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Find Posts with the Wrong CommentCount: Answers & Discussion
Your Query Exercise was to find denormalization accuracy problems: checking the accuracy of a reporting column, Posts.CommentCount. There were two parts: finding the top 100 most problematic Posts with...
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Query Exercise: Find the Best Time for Maintenance
If we’ve gotta take the database down for maintenance – perhaps a version upgrade, perhaps upgrading our own code, maybe scaling up the hardware – when’s the best time to do it? For this week’s query...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: The Question is Not the Problem Edition
I answer your top-voted Azure SQL DB and SQL Server questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento and lose my temper about what you’re doing. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:40 Mattia: Has bulk...
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Save 5% on SQLBits Registration with BRENT5.
Going to the SQLBits conference in March? Whether you’re registering in-person or attending virtually, save 5% on your ticket with discount code BRENT5. During the checkout process, look for this: And...
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Finding the Best Time for Maintenance: Answers & Discussion
Your Query Exercise was to find the best time to do database maintenance by querying the Users table, looking for a one-hour window with the lowest number of created users. We kept this one pretty...
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Query Exercise: Find Tagged Questions Faster.
For this week’s Query Exercise, we’re going to start with an existing query that has performance problems from time to time, depending on how it’s used. This query’s goal is to find the top-voted Stack...
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What PowerBI Questions Do You Have for Eugene Meidinger?
Eugene Meidinger, aka SQLGene.com, makes Power BI concepts easy and accessible. He’s got a free introduction to Power BI performance tuning here. People come to him with questions like: What kind of...
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Free Video Training: Estimation and Statistics by Dave Ballantyne
It’s hard to find good 400-500 level SQL Server training at any price, let alone free. Dave Ballantyne’s past sessions from SQLBits are great examples of those. Today, I’m going to review Dave’s most...
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