Posts by Brent Ozar

En route from San Francisco to Juneau aboard the Ruby Princess, I stopped to hit a few of your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:46 DBACAT: Hi Brent, what statistics impact occurs when a transaction is rolled back? The query’s exec plan didn’t change but duration and CPU jumped 10X. Stats…

Y’all post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, and I go through the top-voted ones on my Twitch channel streams.   Here’s what we covered today: 00:00 Start 01:56 Manoj: Where do you see artificial intelligence having the most impact on DBA’s? 03:25 It’s ‘a me: Hi Brent, is it still “best practice” to have databases split into…

A lot of today’s questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento have a common theme, but it’s just a coincidence: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 07:40 Maciej: Hi Brent, when you are working on the course/training how do you know that the current version is “good enough”? I am asking because my friend has a tendency to spend…

It’s a long one, folks! I went through almost 30 of your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento to get your learn on:   Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:30 Jr Wannabe DBA: Hi Brent, recently you talked about linters; do you recommend any for T-SQL? I tried a few randomly from Google search, they are useless.…

I tested the April release of the FRK, then answered your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.   Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 28:37 Make_a_car_and_call_it_a_Brentley: Hi Brent, thanks for everything you do for the community. I was wondering on your opinion on using RegEx within a SQLquery and it’s performance. We have queries where we analyse about…

You post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see, and my job is to come up with accurate answers on the fly. Let’s see how I did. Here’s what we discussed: 00:00 Start 03:25 SickOf: Brent is there a backup product you can recommend? 04:38 OneEyebrowRaised: I’m noticing three significant shortfalls…

This one’s broken up into two parts because I took a bio break mid-stream: 00:00 Start 03:04 Clippy: Hey Brent, you are the best!!! Can you share us more about your roots? What’s the origin of your family name and where does it comes from? 04:15 I_ALSO_WANT_A_FERRARI: Hi Brent, first of all thank you for…

HONK HONK! It’s time for a fast round of answers to concise questions y’all posted and upvoted at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:19 TheyBlameMe: Hi Brent. What is your view on using Dacpac diffs vs “old style” manual update scripts for deploying DB schema changes in dev-test-prod? 00:52 Alex: Hi boss, I…