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Resolving Conflicts in the Database
Anyone who has worked with replication has run into problems caused by conflicting data. I’ve lost enough sleep over replication to know that having an effective plan for conflict resolution is...
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How to Get Budget Approval for Conferences
If you’ve never been to a conference before, the PASS Summit and Dev Connections events seem like things that happen to Other People. This year, I wanna help make you one of us. You’re a geek, right?...
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Nine Reasons Developers Should Learn SQL
Let’s face it, there are a lot of cool new things you could be learning right now. It seems like there’s a new technology coming out every 12.8 seconds. Why the hell would you want to spend your free...
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Ozar’s Hierarchy of Database Needs
You need to poop. Maybe not right now, but in general, you need to breathe, eat, drink, sleep, and poop. If you can’t do any of those things, then the rest of your needs will take a back seat until...
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Iomega StorCenter PX4-300d NAS Review: iSCSI Monster
I wanted to love this monster from the moment I read the spec sheets: Iomega StorCenter PX4-300d NAS Network attached storage device with 4 or 6 hot-swappable drive bays Available empty (so you can...
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Your Job Isn’t To Make Your Boss Happy
You might be surprised to learn that my goal as a consultant isn’t to deliver recommendations to my customers. Instead, my goal is to deliver recommendations that help my customer’s teams be better...
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“What Were We Thinking?” Enter the Brent Ozar PLF Photo Contest
Before we set sail on SQLCruise Alaska our good friend Crys Manson ( b | t ) captured a few moments of Brent Ozar PLF together in action in Seattle. It was a normal enough afternoon for the team– there...
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The $1,000/Hour Consultants
I’m not the most expensive consultant I know. In fact, I’ve recently hired not one, but two separate consultants that charged $1,000 per hour. Not actually my plumber. One evening, Erika reported that...
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Why Does It Hurt When I Audit?
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter A Auditors. Aversion. Alcohol. Ammunition. All things that start with the letter “A” and coincidentally all seemingly related. This past week I’ve found...
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Upcoming Webcast About Backups, SQL Server, and VMware
Next week, I’m doing a free webcast called The Top 5 Mistakes in Backing Up Virtual SQL Servers. Us SQL Server people think we know backups better than anybody else. We know to do full backups daily,...
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CTP3 is Here! Five Things to Know About the Next Version of SQL Server
SQL Server Denali CTP3 is here, and today I’m excited to be able to talk about this new public preview of the next version of SQL Server. CTP1 came out back in November 2010, and CTP2 wasn’t released...
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How to Set Up SQL Server Denali Availability Groups
Before we get started, we need to talk about something. I’m going to be using the C word – that’s right, Clustering. Deep, calming breaths. Relax. We can do this, you and me. This isn’t the...
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Brent Ozar PLF Adds Another MCM
Nope, we didn’t clone Brent. I am honored to say I’ve earned the Microsoft Certified Master SQL Server 2008 certification. Seriously honored. I feel awesome. What’s the SQL Sever MCM? “MCM” stands for...
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Upcoming Training
There’s a double dose of free training coming your way on Tuesday, July 19th! Completely Legal Performance Enhancements At 11:30 AM Central I’ll be hitting the intertubes and talking about Completely...
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Leaving the Windows Open
Aggregations and grouping can be a pain in the rear for the novice SQL developer. Way back in 2003, the ANSI/ISO standards people figured this out and added windows and ranking functions to the...
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Which Sessions Will YOU Send to the SQL PASS Summit?
It’s votin’ time, folks. SQL PASS 2011 community sessions have been selected by the Program Committee, but there are still five slots up for grabs. Those five sessions are up to you, the community. My...
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The Difficulty with Deadlocks
Deadlocks can kill an application’s performance. Users will complain about the app being slow or broken. Developers will ask the DBA to fix the problem, DBAs will push the problem back on developers....
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Building a Better BrentOzar.com Blog
I’m so proud. My baby’s all grown up now. When I started BrentOzar.com more than ten years ago, I never would have dreamed it’d turn into a consulting company, but here we are. Getting from Point A...
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Completely Legal SQL Performance Enhancements Video
In this video, Jeremiah Peschka talks about the basics of persisted computed columns, indexes, 64-bit servers, and statistics – all free ways you can get more performance out of your existing hardware....
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Land a Dream DBA or Developer Job: Seven Questions to Ask
Looking back over all my years of interviewing and being interviewed, I realize that there are simple secrets to getting a great job offer. The big secret is just this: ask great questions....
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