Almost all of today’s questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento were great! Well, except two.

Here’s what we covered:

• 00:00 Start
• 02:13 Andrei: What’s the appropriate response/punishment for developers who insist on storing json and xml in nvarchar(max) fields?
• 03:43 JustGoogleIt: What are your thoughts on Jeff Moden’s “Black Arts” Index Maintenance — GUIDs v.s. Fragmentation? How would you configure index maintenance on databases with mostly GUIDs for the clustered indexes but some ints sprinkled in?
• 04:31 Eli: Any thoughts on whether the availability of NVMe storage interfaces on Azure Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VMs will finally help close the gap on cloud IOPS and throughput?
• 05:19 Praveen Kumar: Hello Brent, I want to change the datatype from ‘int’ to ‘bigint’ on a partitioned table with 2 billion+ rows. What is the best way to do this with with minimal downtime? I don’t want to create triggers to capture DML query changes as I’m afraid that it might impact performance.
• 06:23 MrGPT: The SQL CPU reached 99 and I saw the ‘704 Workers Created 300 Idle’ log and I couldn’t find any wait type on SQL except Hadr_Lease_Timeout, but this is about cpu reaching 99. How are so many workers created? Only solution set Max Workers 1000 ? 2 servers with AlwaysON
• 08:28 Venkat: Is the Azure SQL DB auto indexing similar in index suggestion quality to Clippy in canned SQL Server (i.e. disregards key order, joins, etc)?
• 09:29 Fritz: Where do you shop for your cool meme shirts?
• 10:15 MooneyFlyer: Sometimes I create schema-bound/indexed views to improve select performance. How can I see the detailed execution plan SQL uses for inserts/updates/deletes on the tables used by the view? SQL is only giving an “Index Update” operator in the execution plan.
• 11:25 Benji: Do you ever do the exotic car racing in Vegas?
• 12:41 NetworkGuy1262: We use SQL Standard with multiple databases ~128G on NVMe disk. Combined, 700G. Servers have 384G RAM. Can you suggest a test method or tool to measure the performance benefit upgrading to Enterprise rather than sticking with 128 buffer pool limit of Standard with fast NVMe?
• 15:37 Sergi : Is it possible, using SQL, to raise the CPU usage % as privileged time? I understand that this metric is only used for system processes but I’m not sure.
• 16:13 Jason from Michigan: I occasionally see an error of “Time-out occurred while waiting for buffer latch type 2 for page”. Rebuilding the index “fixes it” but I am curious what the mechanics are of what’s causing this error to occur.
• 18:57 Dwayne: Which twitch gamers do you enjoy watching?
• 20:20 Pytzamarama: Hi Brent! We have 8 hotel databases on one SQL Server Enterprise, on premise. The managment have opted for moving them to Azure SQL. Since hotel business is a 24/7 one, what is the quickest way (the least downtime) to migrate all 8 SQL Server databases to Azure?Thanx!
• 21:40 Jesse: How would someone get into SQL Server consulting? What do you like the most and hate the most about being a consultant?
• 24:08 Rufus: How do you track down data corruption when the corruption source lies in networking hardware?
• 25:11 Iskenderun: Should we expect much of a server performance hit when we simultaneously enable SQL transport encryption and SQL encryption at rest (TDE)?
• 26:03 Tony: How many of your customers run SQL Server on Kubernetes? Is this a skill worth learning?
• 27:11 Tim: Any plans to purchase the Apple Vision Pro?
• 28:51 Vishnu: What are the tell tale signs that the network bandwidth for your SQL Server is not sufficient?
• 30:01 Eduardo: Are there any risks to our SQL Server for running long periods of time without a reboot?
• 30:48 StuckInTheCloudDBA: Hey, Brent how do you approach index creation for applications such as Informatica MDM where include columns are not supported? Will it be possible to have optimized enough performance only with indexes with key columns?
• 32:27 Izmir: Does commercial SQL monitoring software negate the need for Query Store?