Tap Tap Tap – Short, Silent SQL Server Tutorials
One of the things I love about TikTok is that it exposes me to wildly new video ideas like this:
@tiipititap
There’s a whole genre of videos in that style – people using tapping plastic pointer fingers on a grainy screen with no voiceover. One sub-genre (like the video above) likes to draw your attention to something that seems bad, only to have wild plot twists or last-minute surprises. Other sub-genres purport to “analyze” something completely obvious. I laugh way too hard at these, and the comments are usually hilarious too.
So, I thought to myself, hey, these look relatively easy to film – why not try it with SQL Server?
@brentozarultd Why you should use TOP 100 or below, not TOP 101 or higher #sqlserver #sql #dba #database #azure #microsoft #tips #brentozar #pollgab #computerscience #computerconsulting #database #databaseadministrator #careergoals #spanishsubtitles #Postgres #Postgressql
@brentozarultd Next title: Why you probably shouldn’t be using NOLOCK #sqlserver #sql #dba #database #azure #microsoft #tips #brentozar #pollgab #computerscience #computerconsulting #database #databaseadministrator #careergoals #spanishsubtitles #Postgres #Postgressql
I’ve put several of ’em on our LinkedIn page, TikTok channel, YouTube shorts, and Instagram reels so you can follow me wherever you like to get your social media.
My home office filming setup is pretty amusing. I put my phone on a video tripod so that it’s held in place, but I can smoothly turn it from left to right – useful for when I want to run multiple demos in the same video.
I hope y’all enjoy these as much as I love making ’em. I giggle to myself whenever I set these up!
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Do you describe all the tech in the picture of your tech somewhere?
Great question! Yes, I periodically update it in this category of blog posts: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/category/professional-development/home-office/
I love you Brent,
You have been my hero since I first discovered your site back in 2015 when I had no clue how to performance tune SQL Server and had over promised to “fix” the performance issues that our client was reporting because I thought if I can write really good performing queries then all there is to it to “fix:” other peoples bad queries! Boy was I wrong and ever since then I have been learning from you and now teaching my junior co-developers the lessons I learned from you.
Your my hero!
Same here. Since 2015.
I cannot believe 10 years passed by so fast.
See you in Croatia.
Didnt expect to see 9S hanging off your desk hah, great game though
Hahaha, there’s a story there: when I went to Tokyo, I stumbled through Akihabara just taking in the sights. I don’t know jack about anime or manga stuff, but I love the visual style. I bought a few figurines to hang off my desk and my monitor, and I didn’t even know their backstories until I got home and Googled them!