Office Hours North Bay Canada

[Video] Office Hours in North Bay, Ontario

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I’m up in North Bay, Ontario, Canada for the 2026 Can-Am Curling Cup run by Aaron Bertrand – and my team actually won! Hanging out with Andy Mallon, Aaron Bertrand, Leanne Swart, Michael J Swart, and Ken Mallon before the tournament The winning team, woohoo! Let’s bask in the warmth (cough) of our glory as…
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[Video] Office Hours: Back in the Bahamas Edition

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Yes, I’m back on a cruise ship with another 360 degree video. Lest you think I’m being wildly irresponsible (or responsible perhaps?) with your consulting and training money, be aware that this particular cruise was free thanks to the fine folks in the casino department at Norwegian Cruise Lines. In between beaches and blackjack, let’s…
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[Video] Office Hours in the Vegas Home Office

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Let’s hang out in my home office in Vegas and go through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. The audio’s a little echo-y in this one because I just moved my office down to a small first floor guest bedroom with hardwood floors instead of carpet, and I haven’t treated the room for noise yet. Here’s…
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[Video] Office Hours at Atlantis, Bahamas

[Video] Office Hours at Atlantis, Bahamas

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It’s an overcast afternoon at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas, so since I can’t go into the water, might as well go through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:48 jrl: What makes a good Office Hours question? 01:22 Nils: Do you have any experience with Babelfish or similar…
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Groove Cruise

[Video] Office Hours Aboard the Groove Cruise

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On the world’s largest floating electronic dance music festival, I took your top-voted database questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:54 Frost: What is your opinion on Group Managed Service Accounts? 04:09 Elwood: What AI tool or skills do you recommend learning for DBAs to stay relevant? 07:59 GSurgeon: What are the…
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[Video] Home Office Hours, Under Construction Edition

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While in the midst of moving my home office into a new room in the house, I stopped to take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. About 18.5 minutes into the recording, my camera overheated because I hadn’t set up the fan on it yet, hahaha. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 02:28 Born to be…
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[Video] Office Hours in Tokyo, Japan

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When I travel, I try to take y’all with me to really pretty or at least interesting locations. On my Tokyo visit last year, I did Office Hours in Akihabara, the electronics & anime shopping hub. Even though I’m not into anime at all and I don’t collect that kind of gear, I wanted to…
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Brent in Kyoto

[Video] Office Hours in Kyoto, Japan

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Kyoto feels like a timeless, classic version of historical Japan with quiet tree-lined streets, giant temples, and bubbling brooks. It’s the exact opposite of last week’s experience in noisy Osaka! Last year, I filmed in Kyoto outside a temple, and this year, I’m at another temple just after New Year’s, the time when Japanese folks…
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Brent Ozar Dotonbori Osaka

[Video] Office Hours in Osaka, Japan

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The Dotonbori area of Osaka is like a video game version of Japan: wild, over-the-top neon signs, awesome street food, cool street markets, Kabuki theater on a revolving stage, and more. It’s very touristy, but as touristy places go, it’s fantastic. Last year when I was here, I filmed Office Hours at the river, but…
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[Video] Office Hours in Zhengzhou, China

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I really wanted to film Office Hours on the Great Wall of China, but the instant I got out there, I realized it was a lost cause. That place was SO overwhelming – tons of people, frigid winds, heights, totally overwhelming in every way. So, instead you get a nice peaceful park in downtown Zhengzhou,…
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[Video] Office Hours at the Last Spike

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I drove the Graffiti Gulf out to The Last Spike (video) outside of Las Vegas and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:45 Jan de Graaf: Our database landscape seems CPU-bound. We sometimes hit 100% CPU with organic load. We’re considering new hardware. Do you think memory speed plays…
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[Video] Office Hours: Everything’s Gone Wrong Edition

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I threw in the towel on my workday at 3PM when everything started going wrong in the Ozar home office, so I switched to answering your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 03:59 MyTeaGotCold: How often do you see indexed views these days? 04:14 I 3Fedora: Hi Brent, Not strictly database…
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[Video] Office Hours: Fireside Chat Edition

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It’s the perfect time of year in Las Vegas when we can chill outside by the fire, enjoy a glass of wine, and go through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:54 iliyan Rashev: Hello Brent, I am on SQL Server 2019 RTM Please recommend a patching path: 1. Apply…
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[Video] Office Hours in Roatan, Honduras

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My cruise ship took a detour to Honduras to avoid the hurricane. Let’s hang out on the beach and go through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:58 Dopinder: What is your opinion of the Github copilot support in SSMS 22? Is this more beneficial for the DBA or Data…
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Office Hours Offshore

[Video] Office Hours at Sea

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This Office Hours episode comes to you from Virgin Voyages’ newest cruise ship, the Brilliant Lady, sailing through the Western Caribbean. We were originally scheduled to do the Eastern Caribbean, but Tropical Storm Melissa had other ideas, so they reworked our itinerary at the last minute. Let’s take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento: Here’s what…
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[Video] Office Hours in My Backyard

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Let’s hang out in the backyard – as recently seen on Zillow Gone Wild – and take your top-voted questions from https://PollGab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 01:09 AussieDBA: I was saddened to hear of the passing of Andrew Clarke, who surely had the best pseudonym in the SQL industry, Phil Factor. His articles were some…
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[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About Microsoft Databases

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I’m back at home in Vegas, taking your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento on a hillside enjoying the fall desert weather. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 03:10 Bruce: Howdy! When, if ever, would you recommend implementing a SQL Server Central Management Server? 04:09 Impostor Syndrome: Are multi-TB databases really all that rare? I have several…
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[Video] Office Hours: Database Questions & Answers

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In between clients, I hopped onto my Twitch channel to take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. If you’d like to get notified whenever I do one of those live streams, you can follow my channel for free and you’ll get email notifications automatically. I do ’em whenever I have time, usually about once a week…
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