One of my favorite uses for AI is to ask it to explain a concept using wildly unusual points of view.
Well, we're going to be seeing various family members and friends for the holidays, and we'll get endless questions of, "So, what is it that you do?" I figured ChatGPT would be the perfect source for answers.
SQL Server Management Studio v21 added native Git support, making it easier to use source control natively inside SSMS. This feature is for developers who are already used to working with Github to manage specific object changes as they work, and who are already accustomed to Git terminologies like branches, commits, pushes, and pulls. This…
For the rest of December, I'm out vacationing in China and Japan. For this episode, I'm coming to you from the People's Park in Zhengzhou, China, which is kinda like the Chicago of China. It's in the middle of the US, bigger than people think (13 million people), and has beautiful parks.
https://youtu.be/BT9L-Qiv64c
So you're writing T-SQL code and you've decided that you want to send emails to customers, employees, or the general public. Perhaps you need to send order updates or low stock notifications.
Stop right there. You don't really wanna do that with SQL Server. Let's talk about why.
I went to LA for the opening week of Somni, a gorgeous restaurant in LA, and took your questions from the rooftop deck of the adorable Petit Ermitage hotel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtdQkAw9a8
What, doesn't everyone park a convertible in their dining room? I address the pink elephant in the room, and then take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9utvLk9K9Qc
I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. At one point, my camera overheats - hang in there, I get it fixed in a few seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC9JokmIkuM
At the PASS Summit this month, I presented a 1-day workshop called T-SQL Tuning for SQL Server 2019 & 2022. I just took that material and refactored it into a few different modules for various classes: Mastering Server Tuning - Why Query Monitoring is Hard Now - because I see so many people making bad…
Your app is happily humming along on SQL Server Standard Edition. Things are quiet - too quiet. You're wondering what you're missing, and whether you should be on SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Here are 3 warning signs to watch out for.
Developers say, "Any downtime is unacceptable."
Today at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025. The biggest new features focus on AI and bringing the latest Azure SQL DB features down to your own servers. Here are the top features: Call AI services like ChatGPT directly from T-SQL - using T-SQL commands and sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint Vector searches, a native vector data type,…
Every quarter, we publish adoption rate data showing how quickly people are adopting new versions of SQL Server. Today it's time for the fall 2024 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report.
SQL Server 2019 is still the king of the hill with almost 3X more market share than any other version!
In my PollGab room where y'all can ask questions, Chocolate Thunder wrote:
I do genuinely wish that I could do two things at the same time:
There's a secret theme to the questions I hand-picked from the queue at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Normally I just take the top-voted ones, but today, see if you can spot the thing they all have in common:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reaEWQ1TzLg
SQL Server Management Studio v21 Preview 1 is out and let's give it a quick whirl. It's installed with the Visual Studio installer. That doesn't mean Visual Studio is installed or required - it's not - it's just that the SSMS team is leveraging the work that the VS folks have put in over the years.
You are not ready for how weird my take is.
Last week at the PASS Summit conference in Seattle, Microsoft showed off the upcoming SQL Server Management Studio v21.
That face I'm making in the video thumbnail is priceless. YouTube randomly picks these, and I laughed out loud at this one. Anyhoo, let's get to answering your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0zOllaozX4
I took the Graffiti Gulf 356 out to the Valley of Fire State Park to exercise it, and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr3s9nSagW8
I'm in Seattle this week for the PASS Data Community Summit. Before the pre-conference sessions started, I sat down to take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqKEvcJ3hlU
I was making myself a drink to film Office Hours and I realized I should just film it in my home bar. I mixed myself a gin & tonic and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn3vyX8aMlg
So you're thinking about picking up some of my training & online services, and you're wondering - do people actually buy this stuff?
Here are just a small sampling of some of the companies who've bought recently from me - forgive the sloppy logo arrangement:
