Posts by Brent Ozar

It’s back to lighter fog-friendly clothes as the ship pulls into San Francisco and I answer your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we discussed: 00:00 Start 01:16 Pozzolan: Hey Brent, My companies budget for SQL licensing is small. In such situations, does it make sense to switch or start all new development on something like…

I stopped piloting the ship long enough to answer your top-voted database questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:42 Dirty_Pages: You mentioned recently how much you swear, what is your favorite swear word(s) and why? Any favorite insults? 02:38 SQLCircus.Clown: What is your go to/default SQL datatype for storing a run of…

Thankfully, we didn’t hit any icebergs or glacier droppings, so I put my comfiest coat on to answer your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we discussed: 00:00 Start 01:29 gb DBA: Hi Brent, I have over 200 threads with BROKER_RECEIVE_WAITFOR type when I execute sp_whoisactive and some of trx have high numbers on reads…

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…