Videos

Ask questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me cover. Office Hours: SQL Server and Azure AnswersWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered today: 00:00 Start 00:59 neil: is it dangerous/risky to expand a drive in azure with SQL data files on it? sql on azure vm. dont know…

Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me discuss during my live streams. This week, I took a break from working on my PASS Summit sessions in order to chat: Office Hours: Nine Minutes of SQL Server AnswersWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:32…

Got a question for me? Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me discuss. Before heading to NYC for vacation, I recorded a live Office Hours on my Twitch channel. Office Hours Live: Ask Me Anything About SQL ServerWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start…

Okay, I, uh, forgot to unmute the microphone for this one: Office Hours: Silent RoundWatch this video on YouTube So here are the answers in text form instead. <sigh> Thank goodness it was a speed round! Mike: When Brent Ozar’s certification exams for SQL Server will be available? Looking forward to having exams like “Fundamentals…

On the last day of my Israel trip, I went through the highly upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento and answered ’em, standing in front of the beach. Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About the Microsoft Data PlatformWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:37 AllThePartyPeople: On our server, MAXDOP=1 (not my choice); we…

The morning after the Data TLV Summit in Tel Aviv, I stood out on the balcony and answered a few of your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento, rapid-fire style: Office Hours: Ask Me Anything in Tel AvivWatch this video on YouTube   Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Intros 00:47 cyrpl: Hi Brent from PEI, Canada. A support…

Before speaking at the Data TLV Summit, I sat by the Mediterranean Sea and discussed the top-voted questions you posted at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Office Hours: Tel Aviv, IsraelWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:55 Manikandan GS: As postgres being one among the RDBMS lane, do you think postgres is having more…

Got questions about the Microsoft data platform? Post ’em at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me cover. Today’s episode finds me in my home office in Vegas: Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About SQL Server and AzureWatch this video on YouTube 00:00 Intros 02:10 GeorgeDAX: Hello Brent, I’m a dealing with…

Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me cover. In today’s episode, I sit down on a quiet hotel balcony and talk through a bunch of interesting questions: Office Hours: SQL Server Questions on the BalconyWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:59 Haydar: What…

Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me cover. In today’s episode, I sit down on a quiet hotel balcony and talk through a bunch of interesting questions: Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About SQL ServerWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered today: 00:00 Introductions 00:25 Kebros:…

Post your Microsoft data platform questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me answer. I sat down by the pool in Cabo with a cup of coffee to go through ’em: Office Hours: Cabo San LucasWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Introductions 00:43 MergeItLikeItsHot:…

I hopped down to Cabo San Lucas and sat at the End of the World to answer the questions you posted & upvoted at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Office Hours: Ask Me Database Questions in Cabo San LucasWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Intros 00:44 Kirk Saunders: Hey Brent! When did you determine your…

Not all of the questions you post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long answers. Here’s a quick speed round: Office Hours: Speed RoundWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we discussed: 00:00 Introductions 00:24 EngineHorror: Hey Brent! What’s your opinion on page- and row-level compression in general? Is it true it increases locking besides burning extra CPU?…

This time on Office Hours, I let a few questions piled up at https://pollgab.com/room/brento that required in-depth answers to really do ’em justice. In particular, there was a statistics question that needed demos. Office Hours: Long Answers EditionWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:35 Grogu: Did DBA Brent ever have…

Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me cover. Today, I’m dodging work, so I went through your questions while I waited for the coffee shop to open: Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About SQL ServerWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 03:28 Ivan: What…

I drove the Ferrari out through the Valley of Fire State Park and stopped out in the middle of nowhere to take the questions you’d upvoted at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Office Hours in the Valley of Fire, NevadaWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:39 Saket Mittal: Hi Brent, I am working with…

In ten minutes, let’s cover as many questions as possible from https://pollgab.com/room/brento: Office Hours Speed Round: SQL Server Q&AWatch this video on YouTube Here’s what we raced through: 00:00 Introductions 00:17 dbacat: We’ve been fighting an AG issue for a while. Sometimes during failover, one or a few databases go into initializing/recovery state on the…