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Posts by Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar
2344 posts
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: 45 Minutes of SQL Server Q&A

Brent Ozar
Videos
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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.…
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It’s Been 6 Months. SQL Server 2022 Still Isn’t Ready Yet. (Updated)

Brent Ozar
SQL Server 2022
27 Comments
Six months ago today, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2022 was ready. Except it wasn’t. And it still isn’t ready. See, look at the very first hero in their list of 2022’s new features: The very first one is “Business continuity through Azure – Bidirectional DR to Azure SQL.” However, buried way down in the footnotes, Microsoft admitted:…
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How to Configure Ola Hallengren’s Database Maintenance Scripts for Backups

Brent Ozar
Backup and Recovery
16 Comments
Someone told you that you should be using Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Scripts. You’ve downloaded his Maintenance Solution.sql, you ran it in the master database, and … now you’re not sure what’s supposed to happen next. In this post, we’ll cover how to configure backups. First, configure the Agent jobs. When MaintenanceSolution.sql ran, it created a…
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[Video] Office Hours: Testing the First Responder Kit

Brent Ozar
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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…
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[Video] Office Hours: 25 Pretty Good Questions

Brent Ozar
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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…
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How to Go Live on SQL Server 2022

Brent Ozar
SQL Server 2022
7 Comments
You’re planning to migrate to SQL Server 2022, and you want your databases to be faster after the migration. This is NOT a blog post about how to migrate – that’s the same as it’s been for a long time. Go build the new 2022 servers, and use log shipping or database mirroring to sync…
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[Video] Office Hours: Live Q&A

Brent Ozar
Videos
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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…
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[Video] Office Hours Speed Round: 21 Answers in 15 Minutes

Brent Ozar
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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…
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Office Hours Speed Round, Easy Text Answers Edition

Brent Ozar
Production Database Administration
2 Comments
Some of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento have easy one-line answers. Let’s knock ’em out: George: Hi Brent, what recently has been the most challenging/surprising/new-to-you performance issue you have encountered? SQL Server 2019’s slowdowns. I spent days working on that. RoJo: Have you used Distributed AG as a way to upgrade major versions of…
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[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything at Sea

Brent Ozar
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It was a dark and stormy morning, on the last day of my Panama Canal cruise. Before I perished, I sat down to answer your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: > 00:00 Start 00:36 ClippyTheDBA: Hi Brent. How you keep up-to-date with technology in general and in SQL Server specifically? 02:56 Björk:…
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