Videos

It’s the first webcast I’ve done from my new Vegas pad. You posted questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento/ and I discussed the highest-upvoted ones: 00:00 Introductions 02:15 Jim D: Should I use full backups or log shipping for migrations? 03:53 Sev A: What are the top misuses of SQL Server that are better accomplished without SQL Server?…

It’s the last San Diego balcony edition of Office Hours! You posted your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvoted the ones you’d like to see. Here’s what we covered this week: 00:00 Introductions 00:50 Steve E: Hi Brent, How are you enjoying the Porsche 944? 01:55 Midwest DBA: Hey Brent, The wife says my DBA oncall…

You posted questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and I picked the fastest ones to answer: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:16 Disgruntled App Developer: Hi Brent a friend was recently reprimanded for running a trace in production. The rationale was perf impact and other ‘potential issues’ that weren’t forthcoming. Any thoughts on why traces have an…

I’m back in the US at my home studio in San Diego, so I did a live Office Hours session. Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me cover. Here’s what we covered today: 00:00 Introductions 00:41 WTF_SQLServer!?!: I have a some dbs that take nearly 6 hours each…

Ah, sunset – time to kick back on the balcony, watch the ocean, and discuss SQL Server. You post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento/, upvote the ones you’d like to see me answer, and I discuss ’em: 00:00 Introductions 00:30 iAmGroot: Hello Brent, my friend has a VLDB and he’s asking what is a good strategy to…

Ask me questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see covered. I can pretty well guarantee that your favorite question this time is going to be the last one I answered. Here’s what we discussed today: 00:00 Introductions 00:57 Sean W: New app with data model TBD; what is the thought process…

Got SQL Server questions? Post ’em at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the questions you’d like to see me discuss. Here’s what we covered this morning: 00:00 Introductions 00:45 SQL Simian: Everybody loves free advice, but we want war stories. I have heard your 174 indexes story twice now during recorded classes. Got any more? What are…

Got questions about SQL Server? Post them at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me cover. This episode was the first live one I shot in my home studio in Cabo: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 02:19 Nullpointer: What are your thoughts on temporal tables, I don’t hear you talk much…

I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Giard virtually and discussing what developers need to know about databases. I always have fun talking with David – he’s a great follow on Twitter – and I think it shows in this conversation: Enjoy!

You posted and voted on questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and I answer ’em on the beach. It’s not your eyes: the camera’s hunting for focus a lot in this video. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 01:01 RoJo: Please comment on the Cloud. Too much push at my company to the Cloud without backing to do…

I’ve got a really sensitive lens (Sigma 16mm f/1.4) on my camera, so often when I record these at sunrise, it’s already too bright for you to see the sun. This time, I went down to the beach a little earlier, and through the video, you can see the light really pick up. Here’s what…

You ask questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and I answer ’em from the beach in Cabo San Lucas: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:27 Paul: What are your thoughts on being a Microsoft MVP? 04:33 Lance: I have a Server running SCCM that gets ‘unsafe assembly’ errors. Are unsafe assemblies something that needs to be worried…

I watched the sun rise from my balcony in Cabo this morning and answer your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:42 Student: Hi Brent! Why is full backup sometimes slow and sometimes fast in similar situations? This problem will be resolved after restarting the server but it comes back again. 02:58…

Let’s pick up right where we left off yesterday. I’ve got more time and champagne, so let’s keep going through your top-voted questions from PollGab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:39 Wilma: Poor code & tuning issues. Evidence = Database Performance Analyzer & sp_blitz. App is the customer’s idea. The dev has got golden…

I’m back in San Diego, so let’s sit out on the balcony, enjoy a tasty beverage, and go through your top-voted questions from PollGab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Carl: Hi Brent, what is your opinion of the graph db support starting in SQL2017? Is this another doomed SQL feature? 02:06 Bob: Brent, sometimes when…

Let’s get together at sunrise in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and talk through your highest-upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:33 AtHomeWithCOVID: Historical advice is to spread multiple datafiles/filgroups across disks. Now, storage is allocated from a balanced SAN as one drive, e.g “D” data, “L” Logs Are there any gains…

Let’s kick back with a tasty beverage and go through your highest-upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento on the beach: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:49 Alexander Speshilov: How to determine amount of memory (RAM) used by query store? 02:23 Aslan: Merhaba Brent, in your opinion, what are the top 4 databases to administer by DBA…

Let’s watch the sun rise at Land’s End and cover your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento/. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 01:04 Jr Wannabe DBA: Hi Brent, a colleague wants to upgrade from Standard to Enterprise purely for performance gains on several regular servers (up to 8 CPU, 128GB of RAM, SQL 2016 or 2019).…

Join me on my balcony in Cabo as I review your top-rated questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:48 md: Hi Brent, as SQL Server works with 8K pages why is the recommended NTFS Unit Allocation Size for SQL volumes 64K? Wouldn’t 8K be a more efficient fit? Sneaking in a second…

I went through your highest-voted questions from Pollgab and talked through ’em, and strangely, there was a bit of a 2008R2 theme! https://youtu.be/3-B5L3Komq4 Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 02:00 Pete Donnelly: Hi Brent, I have a 7 TB DB and the largest table is 2 TB, has 6 indexes and 6 related Statistics. It…