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Off the coast of Costa Rica, I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:30 gotqn: In SQL Database we have “sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint”, but in SQL Server 2022 still have not. Is using SQL Server Machine Learning (sp_execute_external_script) a good alternative or nasty hack? 02:19 Chase C: If you had…

Before heading out to Old Town for sightseeing, I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:44 Haydar: Is there a good way to suppress part of TSQL batch from showing the query plan in SSMS but having the rest of the batch show the query plan? 02:13 Mike:…

Today’s episode of Office Hours is brought to you by Quest Software. I went through your top-voted questions from PollGab.com/room/brento, and, uh, kinda looked like I was sponsored by Fendi while doing it, hahaha: Wow, those logos are bigger than I thought. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:20 reluctantly_tolerant : I used FCI instead…

Y’all post and upvote questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, and I stream sessions on my Twitch.tv channel where I answer ’em and chat with the audience. 00:00 Start 02:09 Chad Baldwin: Hey Brent! “a friend told me” MSSQL will use an index’s stats to generate a plan, but not use the index itself. 03:25 Jeremiah Daigle: Hey…

While waiting for the dry cleaner to open, I went live to stream a quiet session going through a bunch of y’all’s questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:45 Rollback is single threaded: Hi Brent! In microservices application architecture, Using a database per service or a shared database? I asked this because…

We went up to Michigan to see my dad’s side of the family, and the snow came down just in time for our arrival. Always love the fresh snow look. So I stood outside and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Let’s see what y’all came up with today: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start…

Lots of good questions on today’s broadcast! If you’d like to submit one, go to https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me cover. Here’s what we covered today: 00:00 Start 01:05 Testing123: When inserting or updating data into a table, from a concurrency perspective, does it make sense to break up the…

Before heading out to dinner, I went through your highly-upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Start 00:20 Mert: Hi Brent, what is the relation between AlwaysOn and Windows Failover Cluster? Is WFC an obligation or a choice for creating an Always On availability group? It will be nice if…

ChatGPT, Resource Governor, manually created stats, Always Encrypted, and as always, fragmentation: let’s answer your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered today: 00:00 Start 01:13 Timbalero: Hi Brent. my friend knows your view on rebuilding indexes. He also thinks that external index fragmentation affects pretty much only readahead scans. For scientific purposes, what metrics…

Y’all just never run out of interesting questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento! I’m impressed, got another great round today. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:25 Chrisbell: Recently we’ve been facing thread starvation issues. How can we troubleshoot it when even sp_whoisactive ( even with DAC ) is unresponsive and takes forever to return a result set…

After I stopped selling live classes, I took some time off all live broadcasting period. It was a nice couple of months over the holidays, had a good time with the family, and now I’m starting to fire up my Twitch channel again. I’m not setting a schedule yet, just broadcasting when I have time…

I am waaaay overdue for a haircut, but instead of being a responsible adult, I stopped to take your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. 00:00 Start 00:43 Mike: We have 3 Dell PowerEdge R630 servers with SQL Server installed. Everything functions for 3.5 years straight. How long is it expected to work? 01:30 Shalom: What are the…

Normally, y’all post and upvote great questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, but in today’s episode, y’all upvoted some stinkers. Buckle up. 00:00 Start 00:47 SQLKB: Hi, according to sp_BlitzCache I usually have more than 260k plans in cache, created in the past 1 hour, is it a big number? Comparing number of plans from exec_query_stats vs exec_cached_plans…

Beep beep! Here’s a speed round of Office Hours where I rip through a dozen questions in under ten minutes. Want to see your own questions answered? Post ’em and upvote the ones you like at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. 00:00 Start 00:22 DB-A-Team: Love and appreciate your work and please don’t make fun of my question. I…

Y’all post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me discuss, and then I artfully dodge giving you answers. At least, that’s how it feels sometimes, hahaha: Here’s what we discussed in today’s episode: 00:00 Start 00:20 Piotr: Do many of your clients disable SA account for security? What are your…