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[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About SQL Server at the Volcano Hekla

I drove up the volcano Hekla in central Iceland - also known as the Gateway to Hell - and parked the Defender here:

While my travel companions hiked up higher (and took that photo), I set up the tripod and camera, then went through your highly-upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.

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[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About SQL Server in Stokkseyri

Before Fjöruborðið opens for lunch, I answer a few of your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento including:

00:00 Introductions
00:29 Peter: What is your opinion about the SQL generated by Entity Framework?
02:00 Peter: When would you switch from EF to stored procedures?
02:45 Always Learning DBA: What are free resources to help me transition into an architect or data scientist role?
04:43 How is the auditing and monitoring different for Azure SQL DB?
06:33 Recap

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[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About SQL Server, Mink Edition

In this episode, I've got my own question: what's this animal running around at my feet? Commenters on the YouTube video explained that it's a mink. They were imported into Iceland in the 1930s for their fur, and they escaped out into the wild. The country's been trying to reduce their population, and they've even been part of the COVID19 news.

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[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About Microsoft SQL Server

Got questions that aren't a good fit for DBA.StackExchange.com, and you want my opinion? Post them here and upvote the questions you'd like to see me talk through. This weekend, I hopped into my home studio and did a half-hour session because so many good questions had piled up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7XFeXcOZgU

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