Posts by Brent Ozar Unlimited Team

This week, Brent and Tara discuss Always On failure scenarios, partitioning without consulting vendors, multi-subnet clustering with AGs, licensing, long running queries, replication, improving index maintenance, avoiding deadlocks, index space usage, and much more. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the…

This week, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss tempdb etiquette for developers, elastic search vs full-text search, server CPU spiking issues, source control in a database project, querying transaction logs, and more. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Enjoy the…

This week, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss tempdb etiquette for developers, elastic search vs full-text search, server CPU spiking issues, source control in a database project, querying transaction logs, and more. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Enjoy the…

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss compatibility levels, SQL server SPN problems, Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, capturing DML stuff, disc defragmentation, replication snapshots and reindexing, load testing, PowerShell, and whether you should pursue the path of a DBA. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or…

This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss AlwaysOn Availability Groups, execution plans, speeding up log shipping, applying wrong service packs, why servers “page wildly” when copying mid to large-size files from one SQL server to another, their favorite high availability solutions, and much more! Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office…

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss whether an antivirus can corrupt a database or remove data files, the biggest node clusters they’ve worked with, whether cursors are a good idea for reporting queries, authogrowth setting for new servers, memory-optimized tables, index rebuilds and more. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to…

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss sp_Blitz capabilities, what’s best to use for resolving SQL performance issues, CDC, tools for capturing wait stats, their favorite monitoring tools, temp tables vs table variables, partitioning with constraints, and whether you should get any certifications. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office…

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss restoring databases from Enterprise Edition to Standard Edition servers, their favorite way of collecting SQL server metrics, extended events, career advice, how to tell what processes SQL uses memory for, and much more! Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe…

On this first Office Hours call of 2017, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss multi-server jobs, how to find motivated Junior DBAs, working with SAP databases, partitioning, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, tracking SQL users, SQL monitoring tools, data capture, source archiving, and much more! Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours,…

This week, Brent and Richie discuss Azure VM, min server memory, backup solutions, autogrowth in tempdb data files, parameter sniffing, sp_whoisactive, the worst feature in SQL server, why you should never use SQL server for sending or receiving emails, and how many Cubs shirts Richie owns. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to…

This week, Erik and Richie discuss latency, partition tables, SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD, alerts, nolock, and what people look for in Senior DBA. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Enjoy the Podcast? Don’t miss an episode, subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS.…

This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss their craziest SQL server troubleshooting issues, common causes of SSPI handshake errors, setting deadlock priority “high” on a query, vmotion high availability, best practices on Windows Server 2012 page files, and whether a career as a Database Administrator will be good for the next 40 years. Here’s the…

This week, Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss replicating TRUNCATE TABLE command between nodes, how to cope with social isolation that comes with working from home, database shrinking, how to improve log wait times, how to figure out the mac stop and threshold cost setting for servers, and laziest methods to deploy objects and run…

This week, Brent and Richie discuss their hardware setups, lazy spools, SQL 2016 Service Pack 1, Always On Availability Groups, Database IDs, GroupBy.org, SQL on Linux, and new features they would like to see in the new version of SQL. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to…

This week Richie, Tara, and Erik discuss replication, mirroring, memory grants, sp_BlitzCache, failover cluster instances, VLFs, restoring databases, qualifying schema and object names, multiple instances, and table variables. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Enjoy the Podcast? Don’t miss…

This week, Richie and Erik discuss log backups, migrating from SQL 2008 R2 to 2014, shrinking databases, tuning long-running queries, execution plans, sequencing, encryption, and much more! Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Enjoy the Podcast? Don’t miss an…

This week, Brent, Richie, Tara, and Erik discuss vendor licensing, rebuilding indexes, analysis services, using trace flag 174, and the team’s PASS Summit impressions and highlights. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Enjoy the Podcast? Don’t miss an episode,…

This week, Brent (and only Brent) answers your questions about table partitioning, best practices for VMware configuration, rebuilding indexes, transitioning from physical SQL failover cluster to VMware or Hyper-V, database backups, security issues with cross-database chaining, and why you should never use vague adjectives when describing database sizes. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can…

This week, Brent, Richie, and Erik discuss estimating compression savings, disabling triggers, suggestions to first-time Pass Summit attendees, tools for database version control, transitioning from SQL 2000 to 2016, troubleshooting failovers, and how to convince your manager to upgrade to newer version of SQL. FYI: our regular transcriptionist is out for a couple of weeks,…

This week, Brent, Richie, Tara, and Erik discuss their learning styles, Always On Availability Groups, memory leaks, Windows updates, how to transition from developer to DBA, upgrading SQL server from 2008 to 2014, temp tables vs table variables, and how to become an MVP. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office…