Videos

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…

This week, Brent, Richie, Tara, and Erik, discuss non-clustered indexes, dynamic SQL, replication, setups for servers dedicated to reporting services and warehouse databases, cross-cluster migrations, employment opportunities in the current market, and much, 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…

This week, Brent, Richie, Tara, and Erik discuss enhancing queries, database corruption, availability groups, parameter sniffing, sending mail via SQL server, whether SQL 2016 is solid or not, other versions of SQL, physical servers vs virtual servers, and much more! Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to…

This week, Brent, Richie, and Erik discuss execution plans for table value functions, how to prepare for the Senior DBA course, source control software, generating fragmentation, backups, and the new TV shows the team is looking forward to this season. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to…

This week, Brent, Richie, Erik, and Tara discuss parameter sniffing, database backups, referential integrity in databases, clustering, creating and using indexes, in-place upgrades, bench marking tools, 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 Podcast? Don’t miss…

This week, Brent, Richie, and Tara discuss corruption, resetting query stats, fixing parameter sniffing issues, how to suggest features for our scripts, and why Brent is sporting an Oracle sweatshirt. 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?…

This week, Richie and Erik discuss in-place instance upgrades, availability groups, the cloud, job security, business intelligence and user adoption, 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. Office Hours Webcast – 2016-08-24   Erik Darling: First one,…

This week, Brent, Richie, Erik, and Tara get together in Round Rock, TX, for Dell DBA Days, to talk through your SQL questions and answers. They discuss what they are working on at Dell during the event, as well as Windows Kerberos and NTLM Authentication, Always On Availability Groups, Microsoft’s Document DB, automating restore databases…

This week, Richie, Erik, and Tara discuss availability groups, sharding databases, using DNS entries to mask DB server names, and Erik’s passion for internet buttons. 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. Office Hours Webcast – 2016-08-03   How can…

This week, Brent, Richie, Erik, and Tara discuss speeding up performance, how to make SSRS highly available, what to do with SSIS packages when making upgrades, Windows Core, and how to hide data from DBAs when they have SA access. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to…

This week, Brent, Richie, Erik, and Tara discuss new Microsoft certs for data science, index rebuilds, replication, patching SQL server, and what to say to a manager that says he needs an active/active HA solution but has no idea what that means. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or…

This week, Erik, Tara, Jessica, Doug, and Angie discuss queries, installing multiple instances of SQL server on a Windows VM, using DENY Database rules, migrating databases to Amazon RDS, availability groups, using filtered indexes, 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…

This week, Brent, Richie, Doug, and Tara discuss Growing databases, most useful SQL certifications, replication issues, group discounts, backup software 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. Office Hours Webcast – 2016-06-22   Brent Ozar: All right, we…