About Me

I’m a SQL Server DBA expert for Quest Software.

Brent Ozar

I work for Quest Software, the makers of Toad, LiteSpeed, Spotlight, Capacity Manager and other cool tools for SQL Server.  Until 2008, I worked in the field as a database administrator.  I’ve also done SAN administration, VMware implementations, and software architecture, so I’ve been involved with all kinds of aspects of databases.

I’m working on the upcoming Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting book from Wiley/Wrox along with my coauthors Christian Bolton, Justin Langford, James Rowland-Jones and Jonathan Kehaiyas.  The book is designed to give you everything you need to troubleshoot Microsoft SQL Server, start to finish – storage, memory, error logs, you name it – inside a single thick book.

I’m sort of a community ambassador for Quest’s SQL Server group.  If you run into a problem with Quest’s people, products or processes, feel free to talk to me via email or any of the social networks I’m on.  I can’t be the first person you call with a tech support question, but if anything else isn’t going quite the way you want, let me know and I’ll poke around inside the company to help make things right.  If you’d rather use my Quest email, that’s Brent.Ozar@Quest.com.

I’m Editor-in-Chief at SQLServerPedia.

It’s a a wiki and blog about SQL Server.  I take my experiences, blog about it here and at SQLServerPedia, and I record free SQL Server tutorial videos.

I’m available for SQL Server consulting.

I do side work on nights & weekends.  If you’re running into performance problems and you want a second opinion, I can help.  I specialize in a short turnaround process that involves:

• Helping you set up performance monitoring
• Interpreting the performance metrics and slow queries
• Writing a concise, easy-to-follow plan for you to improve performance (here’s a sample report)

This process generally takes about two days and is done remotely without travel expense or remote access to your systems.  Contact me and I’d be happy to give you references, rates and my availability.  You can also check my resume.

How to Contact Me

You can email me at brento@brentozar.com or catch me on Twitter as @BrentO.