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Posts by Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar
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https://www.brentozar.com
I make Microsoft SQL Server go faster. I love teaching, travel, cars, and laughing. I'm based out of Las Vegas. He/him.

Barack Obama’s campaign let Twitter down

Brent Ozar
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So it’s the day after a really historic election: the first guy with a Twitter account to be elected as president! What an awesome chance to send 140 characters of hope, change, dreams, opportunity, you name it. It’s so exciting!  Me personally, I’d have picked “Yes We Did!”  That would have been so cool, and…
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Houston Tweet-Up: The Morning After

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Yesterday afternoon, the Houston tweeps converged on Coffee Groundz.  I had a great time and got to finally meet some of the folks I’ve Twittered with for months. Photos from around the web: David Harrold’s photos on Flickr ETee’s photos on Flickr SEvatt’s photos on Flickr BrightKite’s Coffee Groundz stream And for your notes, the…
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Somebody created a Halloween monster #SQLputdowns

Brent Ozar
Humor
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I think Tim Ford aka SQLAgentMan was the first with this, but now it’s turned into a monster.  On Twitter, we’re trading SQL putdowns.  You can find ’em on search.twitter.com by searching for #SQLputdowns. Here were my personal favorites from the chatter: Yo mama so dumb she separates statements with STOP. – JCumberland Yo mamma…
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Before you upgrade to SQL Server 2008…

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This month’s Redmond Mag glows about some new features in SQL 2008, and yes, it does have a lot of cool tricks up its sleeve.  But before you go upgrading your servers to get those new features, there’s one thing you need to know. New versions of SQL Server are not always faster for every…
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Office in the web + BI in Excel != SSAS DBA jobs

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Add these two things together: SQL Server’s Project Gemini is moving BI into Excel. The next version of Office will be available inside the browser. If that doesn’t scream hosted-BI, I don’t know what does. This is more fuel for Jason Massie’s belief that cloud services will kill the DBA, and I gotta tell you,…
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Want to stop Windows from locking your screen?

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I work for a company whose IT department has a group policy enforced so that our screens lock after 10 minutes of inactivity.  That’s great in theory, but I run my corporate workstation inside VMware, which means I’m back and forth between different windows all the time.  When I go away from my Windows VM…
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Welcome to the Social…Hell! (My Zune experience)

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I bought a Microsoft Zune 8 to test the new SQLServerPedia video podcasts and the user experience was so unpolished, so unprofessional that I just had to bang out a blog about it.  Looking at the iPod Nano next to the Zune 8, I could never understand why somebody would buy the Zune 8.  Now…
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SQL Server 2008 Management Studio: Group Execute

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I’m going to show how to use a new feature in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio: the ability to query groups of servers simultaneously. In Registered Servers, right-click on a group of servers and click New Query. What comes up will look like a normal query window, but pay close attention to the very bottom…
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Amazon EC2 Windows support now live!

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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You can now spin up a virtual server in Amazon’s datacenter with Windows running. Even better, you can spin up a fresh new SQL Server for around $1 per hour. Amazon Web Services Blog announcement on Windows support Amazon EC2 description with Windows and SQL Server pricing And of course, this comes on a day…
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The problem with SQL Server training today

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I haven’t been doing a lot of in-depth technical blogging here lately because I’ve been working on a very big problem: the state of SQL Server training today.  DBA training today has all kinds of problems: I’d go buy a book, but books take forever to come out. I’d like to learn about SQL Server…
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Houston Twitter party at Coffee Groundz on Nov 2

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Want to meet your mostest favoritest Houston tweeps and talk trash about your leastest favoritest ones?  Coffee Groundz in Midtown is hosting a Twitter party on Sunday, November 2nd from 2pm to 6pm. Those of you who follow me on Twitter or on BrightKite know that I’m here all the time – I’m typing this…
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SSWUG Virtual Conference discount code

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Psst – want $25 off the SSWUG Virtual Conference, bringing it down to only $75? I got a promo email today from my employer (see, when it comes from the people who pay your check, you can’t call it “spam”) that says to enter VIPVC2510 in the VIP code field.  For all I know, this…
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Moving to Michigan temporarily

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One of the sweet things about telecommuting is the ability to pack up the tents and head off to a new location for a while.  Erika’s never seen a real winter, so we’re moving up to my hometown of Whitehall, Michigan.  We’re staying in the Colby State Park – not a real state park, of…
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IBM SVC Entry Edition pricing out

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IBM just unveiled a smaller-scale edition of their storage virtualization solution called IBM System Storage SVC Entry Edition.  From the interwebs comes a press release which includes this juicy quote: “The idea is to make it more affordable for smaller companies – the entry edition is priced per disk drive with a starting configuration costing…
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