Posts by Brent Ozar

Your application wants to go fast, so I guess that means our tickets go fast. For our upcoming Chicago training classes in May, the 3-day SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting class is just about sold out. (There’s still about 15 seats left for our How to Be a Senior DBA training class, though.) If you missed…

On my East Coast user group tour last month, I presented my How to Think Like the SQL Server Engine course to a few hundred folks. I’m always trying to learn and adapt my delivery, and I noted a lot of attendee questions this round, so I updated the course. This is my favorite course…

It’s time to learn another new set of acronyms. Effective today, Microsoft’s as-a-service brand is changing names again. As recently as last week, the product’s name had been changed from Windows Azure to Microsoft Azure, but industry observers noted that Microsoft’s web pages actually referred to a different name – Microsoft Cloud. “Our research found that the…

I know a lot of DBAs, but it’s really, really rare that I’ve seen one get fired. I don’t think it’s ever happened during one of my consulting engagements, and I’ve seen some incredibly horrific database disasters (not to mention a whole lotta ugly near-misses). So I asked Twitter: Thinking about a blog post. When…

“Can you tell me a little about this code?” I asked, keeping my best poker face on. “I’m really proud of it. It gathers a whole bunch of stuff from accounting, human resources, manufacturing, you name it. I want to be able to track how we’re doing over time.” He nearly hovered in his chair…

We had a lot of fun this month teaching SQL Server classes at the San Diego Harbor Hilton. (We wrote about how we picked the cities earlier.) Even when we teach, we learn, and then we share what we learned, so here we are. San Diego Harbor Hilton We like to try new things with our…

Your SQL Server is slow – but should you call us in? Jeremiah and Brent had a throw-down the other day, and we figured we’d capture it here on the blog. Brent Says You Do, and Here’s Why 5. You’ve been blindly throwing money at the problem without results. You’re on a first name basis…

The last DBA had an unfortunate accident in Alaska. When the database administrator turns in her notice, what questions should you ask her in her last couple of weeks? I’m assuming, of course, that it was a friendly departure and you’ve got the full two weeks to have good conversations. Or maybe the DBA is…