Posts by Brent Ozar

As part of our road trip this week to Oklahoma City, we stopped at Paula Deen’s The Lady and Sons in Savannah. For those of you unfamiliar with The Food Network, Paula Deen and her two sons are food celebrities, great people with a great story. The restaurant doesn’t take advance reservations: instead, hopeful diners…

In line at Apple South Beach I wasn’t going to wait in line, but I came past here after work a few minutes ago and there’s maybe a hundred people in line, tops, so I figured what the hell. I won’t be broken hearted if they run out – I can wait a while.

Honda Fit at Miami Ink After the Jeep developed a transmission problem last weekend, Erika and I decided to take the plunge. We traded in the Saturn for a new Honda Fit. Our plan had always been to have one really reliable car and one fun car, and for a couple of years, the Jeep…

The Jeep is going on its own Memorial Day weekend road trip – to the dealer. Last night, Erika and I tried to take it to P. F. Chang’s for our payday Friday ritual only to find the shifter wasn’t connected to anything. I could slide it around freely between R, N, D, 3, 2,…

Apple retail stores have a Genius Bar where you can get tech support.  I walked over to the Apple Store on Lincoln Road (damn, I love living in Miami Beach) and bellied up to the bar.  The bartender, wearing a black t-shirt with the label “Genius” on the front, helped out a couple of customers. …

Yesterday was Take Your Sons and Daughters To Work Day, and I got roped into leading sessions. I ran a presentation on desktops & servers: we opened up desktops, explained what the parts did, showed off a couple of servers, and finished things off with a round of LAN games. We were a big hit…

It’s 7:30 AM, and I’m sitting in an empty conference room. Why? Because Mike Culver from Amazon Web Services is about to present sessions on S3 and EC2, two of my favorite upcoming technologies. I’ve been getting more and more involved with virtualization over the last year – Southern is running 2/3 of their Windows…

Tara Hunt blogged about the Boutique Generation, saying: “You may be a member of the Boutique Generation if you: Enjoy shopping at your local pharmacy, grocer, clothing store where you know the owners and feel yourself going out of your way to give them business even if their prices are higher because you prefer to…

Ben and I finishing the Run for Miracles I ran a 5k this morning in Delray Beach with Ben, the guy from work who got me started on the whole running thing. At our post-race breakfast at Cracker Barrel (helllooo, calories), I said that I don’t enjoy running at all, but I’m doing it for…

Word is getting out at the office about me using a Mac, and at least once a week now, someone comes over to my cube to ask a few questions. Here are the most common ones: Q: Is that your personal computer, or your work one? It’s my work one, and it’s the only computer…

DBAs need an in-office computer to run overnight and weekend performance logs, traces, and long-running queries. For example, let’s say you need to run a long series of maintenance queries to rebuild indexes over the weekend. You shouldn’t be remote-desktopping into your production servers to run this query: instead, you just need a simple workstation…