I’m in Iceland this week, land of fire and ice, a place I keep coming back to over the years. It’s one of my favorite places on earth with stunning scenery, nice folks, and great restaurants. I paused at Godafoss to take your top-voted questions from Pollgab.com/room/brento.

Here’s what we covered:

• 00:00 Start
• 00:56 MyTeaGotCold: If a Standard Edition box runs nothing other than a single instance of SQL Server 2022, what is the absolute maximum amount of RAM worth putting in it? I know it’s more than 128 GB, but surely less than 1 TB.
• 02:20 iH8Toast: Hi Brent! Any advice on how to be taken seriously when voicing concerns outside of your job role? For context, I do GIS (maps) support for a software vendor and am trying to learn SQL DBA things. I just found that our 550+ customer servers have never run CHECKDB and it scares me.
• 05:08 Help Help Me BrentO: The problem I am trying to solve is eliminate the problems created by index maintenance where not doing this is not popular in my shop. What do you think about making the threshold based on average page usage being less than 50% of the fill factor?
• 08:26 A Pistol for Paddy Garcia: Has the book on Availability Groups been written yet? I’m becoming an accidental production DBA.
• 09:13 That’s No Moon: Hey Brent. What’s the problem you’re trying to solve? And how can we help?
• 10:10 Bamboo Eagle: What’s your opinion of federal return to the office order aimed at the work from home crowd? Will this catch on in the corporate world?
• 11:05 Irretrievable Data Loss: If my failover mode is manual, do I benefit from enabling Database Level Health Detection?
• 12:08 Dopinder: Will SSMS 21 source control support see wide scale use / adoption or will it serve a niche crowd?
• 13:24 Doramu: Why did Azure Data Studio fail? What should Microsoft have done differently?