[Video] Office Hours: Open Q&A on Microsoft Databases
I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento while recovering from a late night of partying. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:00 VegasDBA: Loved the Always-On Availability...
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The 2024 Black Friday Sale is Coming Next Month.
Your accounting office Every year during November, we run a big sale all month long. And every year, right after the sale ends, we get a bunch of panicked emails from people screaming, “I HAD NO IDEA...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Winners of the Biggest Database Regret Contest
I recently asked you to leave a comment with your biggest database regret, and the comments were great! Here were my favorites: Runners-Up These 5 folks each won a Fundamentals Bundle lifetime access...
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Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? October 2024 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of October 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: Icy Strait Point, Alaska
I’m on a boat! We took an Alaska cruise with some friends aboard the Norwegian Jewel. En route to Icy Strait Point, Alaska, I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s...
View Article[Video] Office Hours in Haines, Alaska: No Bears Here
While in beautiful Haines, Alaska along the Chilkoot River, I stopped to take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:26 James L: When you...
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Finished Your Training? Get a Certificate of Completion.
If you want to get a raise or stand out from a crowd of job hunt competitors, you need something to differentiate yourself. Whenever you finish a training class – including mine – ask if you can get a...
View Article[Video] Office Hours on a Calm Sea Day Off Canada
On an unbelievably calm sea day off the shores of Canada, aboard the Norwegian Jewel, I enjoyed a nice cup of completely alcohol-free coffee (as far as you know) and took your top-voted questions from...
View ArticlePoll: What’s In Your Development Database?
When your developers work on new queries or testing complaints about existing queries, what database are they working on? I put together an anonymous one-question poll that only takes a few seconds to...
View Article[Video] Consulting Lines
In my consulting work, I often find myself saying the same things to clients – but they’re not the kinds of things I said when I was a database administrator. I call these “Consulting Lines”, and I...
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Should That Be One Update Statement or Multiple?
Let’s say we have a couple of update statements we need to run every 15 minutes in the Stack Overflow database, and we’ve built indexes to support them: EXEC DropIndexes @TableName = N'Users'; CREATE...
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How Many Indexes Is Too Many?
Let’s start with the Stack Overflow database (any size will work), drop all the indexes on the Users table, and run a delete: SET STATISTICS IO ON; GO BEGIN TRAN DELETE dbo.Users WHERE DisplayName =...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Back at Home (Briefly)
I took a break from unpacking my SQL Saturday San Diego bags and re-packing for a Boston wedding long enough to take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we...
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Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for October 2024
The wording of all of sp_BlitzIndex’s warnings is now much more clear and inclusive thanks to hard work by W. Eli Hayes and VladDBA. When Kendra Little first wrote sp_BlitzIndex about a decade ago to...
View Article[Video] SQL Server Always On Availability Groups 101
I got a few closely related Availability Groups questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and decided to do a half-hour introduction to AGs: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:24 Paul Hunter: My...
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What’s In Your Development Database? The Answer: Production Data.
Are your developers working with live production data, completely made-up synthetic data, or something in between? I posted a poll here on the blog and on a few of my social media feeds, and here were...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Open Q&A About Databases
I’m back in the home office to take your database questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Start 03:15 Mattia Nocerino: I’ve always ignored database...
View Article[Video] Office Hours: Salem Witchcraft Edition
It’s spooky time again! I visited Salem, Massachusetts again this year, this time for a friend’s wedding. I ended up in the same spot next to the Charter Street Cemetery that I filmed at last year! I...
View ArticleThe Countdown is On: Our Black Friday Sale Starts This Friday!
All year long, when you’re watching my Office Hours sessions, you keep hearing me say, “That topic is addressed in the X class” or “For the full answer on that, check out the Y class.” And all year...
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Who Actually Buys BrentOzar.com Training?
So you’re thinking about picking up some of my training & online services during our annual Black Friday sale, and you’re wondering – do people actually buy this stuff? During last year’s Black...
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