Posts by Brent Ozar

It’s an overcast afternoon at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas, so since I can’t go into the water, might as well go through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:48 jrl: What makes a good Office Hours question? 01:22 Nils: Do you have any experience with Babelfish or similar…

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…

While in the midst of moving my home office into a new room in the house, I stopped to take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. About 18.5 minutes into the recording, my camera overheated because I hadn’t set up the fan on it yet, hahaha. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 02:28 Born to be…

When I travel, I try to take y’all with me to really pretty or at least interesting locations. On my Tokyo visit last year, I did Office Hours in Akihabara, the electronics & anime shopping hub. Even though I’m not into anime at all and I don’t collect that kind of gear, I wanted to…

Kyoto feels like a timeless, classic version of historical Japan with quiet tree-lined streets, giant temples, and bubbling brooks. It’s the exact opposite of last week’s experience in noisy Osaka! Last year, I filmed in Kyoto outside a temple, and this year, I’m at another temple just after New Year’s, the time when Japanese folks…