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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.

[Video] Office Hours: Nine Minutes of Answers

Brent Ozar
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Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me discuss during my live streams. This week, I took a break from working on my PASS Summit sessions in order to chat: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:32 Jeremy: We have an older web app we’re going to be rewriting…
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[Video] Office Hours Live: Ask Me Anything

Brent Ozar
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Got a question for me? Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me discuss. Before heading to NYC for vacation, I recorded a live Office Hours on my Twitch channel. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 04:40 neil: are there any ‘band aids’ a DBA can apply for a…
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#tsql2sday: Start Your Dynamic SQL with a Comment.

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
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When you write dynamic SQL, start like this: CREATE OR ALTER PROC dbo.MyProc AS BEGIN DECLARE @StringToExecute NVARCHAR(4000); SET @StringToExecute = N'SELECT /* MyProc */ '; ... 12345 CREATE OR ALTER PROC dbo.MyProc ASBEGIN DECLARE @StringToExecute NVARCHAR(4000); SET @StringToExecute = N'SELECT  /* MyProc */ '; ... Right after the SELECT (or INSERT or UPDATE or whatever),…
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[Video] Office Hours Silent Edition

Brent Ozar
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Okay, I, uh, forgot to unmute the microphone for this one: So here are the answers in text form instead. <sigh> Thank goodness it was a speed round! Mike: When Brent Ozar’s certification exams for SQL Server will be available? Looking forward to having exams like “Fundamentals of QT”, “Mastering Server Tuning” etc, so you…
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[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything at the Mediterranean Sea

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On the last day of my Israel trip, I went through the highly upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento and answered ’em, standing in front of the beach. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:37 AllThePartyPeople: On our server, MAXDOP=1 (not my choice); we had a poor performing SP call (called as dynamic SQL; again not my choice);…
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Vegas Home Office Tour

Brent Ozar
Home Office
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I’ve been teaching online from home for years, and you’d probably think my office would keep growing and growing – but actually, my setup has gotten a lot smaller since the last time I blogged about it. I don’t really need space in order to work, and I kinda wanna incentivize myself to get out of the…
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[Video] Office Hours: Six-Minute Speed Round

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The morning after the Data TLV Summit in Tel Aviv, I stood out on the balcony and answered a few of your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento, rapid-fire style:   Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Intros 00:47 cyrpl: Hi Brent from PEI, Canada. A support person told me today that when creating a table, an ID column…
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[Video] Office Hours in Tel Aviv, Israel

Brent Ozar
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Before speaking at the Data TLV Summit, I sat by the Mediterranean Sea and discussed the top-voted questions you posted at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:55 Manikandan GS: As postgres being one among the RDBMS lane, do you think postgres is having more features and flexibility compared to MS-SQL Server? 02:46 PaginationWoo!:…
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