On the world’s largest floating electronic dance music festival, I took your top-voted database questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.

Here’s what we covered:

• 00:00 Start
• 01:54 Frost: What is your opinion on Group Managed Service Accounts?
• 04:09 Elwood: What AI tool or skills do you recommend learning for DBAs to stay relevant?
• 07:59 GSurgeon: What are the telltale signs that a database has flaws?
• 09:20 Scottish: Utility Control Point – have you ever found a use case?
• 09:34 Raddock: Last week you shared Andy Cutler’s post about solo consultancy. Andy argued that small companies are shifting from solo consultants to using LLMs. Do you have similar observations and do you think this is permanent or temporary?
• 14:28 MyTeaGotCold: Should I expect my usage of FORCESEEK to increase as table size increases?
• 16:12 Wombat: I’m getting error 666. How do I know what table and index is causing it?
• 17:31 Andrew: I’ve been asked to explore switching the operating system for our SQL Server from Windows to Linux.
• 19:04 Chris: Hope you’re enjoying your time away. If you worked for an employer, would you prefer working from home, the office, or a hybrid?
• 21:47 How many questions can I do per Office Hours episode?