For the last few years, we’ve hosted a Tuesday webcast to talk SQL Server.

We’re giving it a vacation in August, and then starting September 2, Office Hours is coming back on Wednesdays.

This is easier for us because of the way our SQL Critical Care® service works. We’re typically working with clients interactively on Monday and Tuesday, and then Wednesday we take a break to write the findings recap. It’s easier for us to take a midday break on Wednesdays.

Here’s a sampling of some of the questions we’ve answered at Office Hours:

• What are your recommendations for service accounts? Unique domain accounts for each instance/service, shared domain accounts, or something else?
• Can you explain why one database can be added to AG with just a full backup and another would need a transaction log backup as well?
• Working on my first AG setup in 2012. I don’t quite understand how the listener works with DNS. Does the listener name get registered with each AG IP?
• We’re looking into Amazon Web Services cloud with SQL Server, any thoughts or tips or things to be aware of?
• Ever ran into an instance where database gets detached automatically after server restart?
• What would you recommend as MAXDOP for a server with 80 cores?

To pick our brains and learn from other questions/answers, register for Office Hours here.