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Meet Our SQL Storytelling Winner
#SQLCruise Alaska: Class is In Session! The Brent Ozar PLF crew sailed on SQLCruise Alaska last week. Brent, Jeremiah, and Kendra each taught a session (or two) on the cruise. There was much talk of...
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Demystifying Benchmarking: How to Measure Performance in SQL Server Video
Ever wanted an independent measurement for how “fast” a given SQL Server can run? Benchmarks allow you to measure and compare base performance between instances using a standard simulated workload. In...
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Everything You Know About Clustering is Wrong
Remember that weirdo in high school who had no social skills? Couldn’t get a date, worked at the fast food joint as a fry cook, face covered with zits – you know the one. Okay, actually, it was us....
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What I Learned at #MSTechEd North America Last Week
Last week, I soaked up sun, rain, and knowledge in Orlando, Florida at the annual Microsoft TechEd conference. It’s a huge conference with something like 10,000 attendees, and it covers development and...
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We’re Presenting at the #SQLPASS Summit 2012!
All four of us – Brent, Jeremiah, Jes, and Kendra – got sessions approved for the PASS Summit in November! Here’s what we’ll be covering: Shazam! We’re speaking at the PASS Summit! A Developer’s Guide...
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Your First Good Job Isn’t In the Newspaper
Right now is an incredible time to do what you love. Bear with me for a second and watch this one-minute video from Red Bull: It’s full of people doing what they love. These people are at the top of...
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Architecting with AWS – Before You Go
Architecting with AWS is a three day training session held at the AWS offices in Seattle (classes are available in other locations). Both outsiders and AWS employees come together to learn about...
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Video: Open Question and Answer Webcast
Parameter sniffing, clustered indexes, clusters in VMware – you asked it, we answered! By popular demand, here’s our first open Q&A webcast where attendees could ask anything they wanted. Here’s...
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Architecting with AWS – Course Overview
The Friday before class started I received an email from people running the Architecting with AWS training class about how to get to the class, what time class got started, a schedule of topics, and a...
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The Presenter’s Bill of Rights
Bad news: you don’t have any. You THINK you have the right to all of this stuff: A working screen for a projector (as opposed to one that’s hung up in the ceiling and won’t come down) A working...
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How to Pick a SQL Server Conference
In the last year, I’ve been lucky enough to go to a crazy number of SQL Server conferences as both an attendee and a speaker. I had an ugly moment recently, though, when I realized that my schedule...
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The Not-So-Secret SQL Server Agent – Free Video
Automating SQL Server tasks will make your job easier and make you more productive. SQL Server has a built-in automation tool: SQL Server Agent. Join us for this 30-minute webcast where I show you how...
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Before You Fail Over a SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group
Think fast! When it’s time to do a manual failover with SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups, we need to make a few decisions and perform a few tasks as quickly as possible to get the business...
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We’re an Amazon Consulting Partner
I’m really excited to share the news that Brent Ozar PLF is now an Amazon Consulting Partner. The Amazon Consulting Partner program is a way for Amazon Web Services to identify consulting firms...
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Identifying and Correcting SQL Server Implicit Conversion
When you build a database in SQL Server, you need to pick a data type for each field in each table. Hopefully, a great database designer took the time to carefully understand business needs and what...
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Fast Storage in AWS
One of the biggest complaints about Amazon Web Services has been disk performance. In order to get fast performance it has been necessary to use RAID 0 and spread writes across multiple disks. There’s...
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Backup to Basics – Free Video
Backups are something that we take for granted. As long as the backup jobs are working, there’s nothing to worry about, right? In this presentation, Jeremiah Peschka will explore the backup options...
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Become a Presenter, Change Your Life
I began presenting on SQL Server two years ago. At the time I was a Senior Database Administrator. My workdays were spent getting ahead of the next big performance problem in an environment where...
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Everything Breaks
Everything breaks. Clothing wears out; iron rusts; wood rots, splinters, or breaks; software crashes. Even though we are armed with the knowledge that breakage is inevitable we still strive to build...
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SQL Server DBA Interview Questions Video
Our clients often bring us in to interview their candidates for junior and senior positions. Whether you’re a junior, senior, or expert candidate, we’ve got questions that help us figure out whether...
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