I was supposed to be on a flight to Mexico, but had to cancel at the last minute. While waiting for my favorite bagel shop to open, I went through your professional development questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.

Here’s what we covered:

• 00:00 Start
• 03:25 Asking for a friend: As a prod dba, should I know what data is available in my database? Asking for finance related risks
• 04:40 Oracle DBA: Hey Brent. I really appreciate all the effort that goes into the office hours streams. I was looking at the youtube channel to find the long form office hours from your San Diego place but couldn’t find much of them. Were those streams deleted?
• 05:10 Dirk Hondong: “Here is a non-technical question: Is there a book or movie you’ve read or watched recently that you would recommend?”
• 06:30 Mr. SqlSeeks: What do you do to reset your brain/help you refocus during a work day when you are feeling stressed or overwhelmed?
• 10:12 Qimir: Will AI soon make it practical for a company to migrate off of one RDBMS and onto another?
• 11:45 FutureBlogger: Hi Brent, I was interested by your post on the future of the Stack Overflow data dump. Do you think their direction of travel will make it harder for people to use the existing data dumps and databases in blog posts and presentations in the future?
• 12:50 Venkat: What is your opinion of the recent Azure outage? Did it impact your clients?
• 14:04 TeaEarlGreyHot: Have you done any work other markets where compensation standards are much lower? Did you adapt your rates to that market? If so, how do you go about what would be a fair compensation rate?