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Save 10% on SQLBits Registration with BRENTO10.

Last Updated February 23, 2024

Going to the SQLBits conference in March? Whether you’re registering in-person or attending virtually, save 10% on your ticket with discount code BRENTO10. During the checkout process, look for this: And save yourself some quick bucks. The screen will refresh after you hit Apply, so make a note of the price before & after. You’re…

ChatDBA: ChatGPT 4 Answers 5 Office Hours Questions

Last Updated December 1, 2023

Production Database Administration

Every now and then, someone asks a question on PollGab about why I don’t use ChatGPT to answer these questions. And sometimes, I wonder that myself – I wonder why people don’t put their questions into ChatGPT, especially GPT 4, because it’s pretty damned good. I did this a while ago using ChatGPT 3.5, which…

Fundamentals Week is Coming. Every Day, the Price Goes Up.

Last Updated October 25, 2023

Company News, Conferences and Classes

You’ve attended some of my free online streams, read my blog posts, and you use the First Responder Kit. You enjoy my laid-back, humorous approach to sharing what I’ve learned over the years. You love live classes. You’ve tried watching recordings or stepping through demos yourself, but…you just can’t block out the time, and you…

Well, I’m Not Doing SQLBits After All.

Last Updated October 10, 2023

I was so excited when SQLBits announced their 2024 dates & location, and I told y’all that I was blocking out my calendar and I’d be there. Unfortunately, not gonna happen. This year, SQLBits dramatically cut payments for speakers. We used to get paid per attendee at our workshops, but that’s done. Now you get…

Announcing SQLBits 2024: 19-23 March, Near London

Last Updated September 14, 2023

I hate picking favorites, but I gotta be honest: SQLBits is my favorite conference. Sure, like any conference, it has workshops, training days, and even a free community day, but the icing on the crumpet is the attendee party. Every year, Bits goes all out to pick a theme and throw a monster Friday night…

Office Hours - ask me anything.

[Video] Office Hours: I Need Your Help with These

Last Updated August 9, 2023

Today, I need your help with some of the top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Chime in in the comments: 00:00 Start 00:52 Accidental DBA: Hello Brent. Thank you for keeping your Q& A sessions entertains and informative. My question is non-technical…Have you ever said this to your client? You keep using that word. I don’t think…

The PASS Summit Lineup Is Out and Registration is Open!

Last Updated August 14, 2023

This year’s PASS Data Community Summit is November 13-17 in Seattle. (No online version is available this year – you gotta be there in person.) If you’ve attended in person before, you already know the value: it’s like a family reunion for the Microsoft data community. It’s your chance to see the authors you’ve read…

[Video] Office Hours: DBA & Developer Relationships

Last Updated June 26, 2023

Y’all posted & upvoted questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, and we finished up the session talking about the relationships between developers and database administrators. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 02:35 Nortzi: Hi Brent. Is there a way to optimize sorting a result using a column from a different table? Using POC index pattern (partition,order,covering) works great…

Poll Results: Are You Going Back to In-Person Events?

Last Updated June 11, 2023

Conferences and Classes

Last week, I asked if y’all had been to in-person regional events before, and whether you were going back. I wanted to know because Data Saturdays and SQL Saturdays are starting to happen again, but … attendance seems way down from pre-COVID numbers. I wondered, are people just not going to return to conferences for…

Poll: Are You Going Back to In-Person Events?

Last Updated June 2, 2023

Conferences and Classes

Two short yes/no questions about regional & national conferences: I've been to an in-person event like SQL Saturday, PASS, SQL Bits before:(Required) Yes No Events likeI intend to go to an in-person event again in the next 12 months:(Required) Yes No Δ (If you can’t see the yes/no questions or the results, click here to…

Microsoft Build 2023 Keynote Live Blog: Introducing Fabric

Last Updated May 23, 2023

Conferences and Classes

Goooood morning, party people! Today is the opening day of the annual Microsoft Build conference, an event focused on people like developers and power users who build things with Microsoft tools. I’ve never attended Build in person before because the data part of the event tends to be fairly thin, and the releases for Azure…

It’s Been 6 Months. SQL Server 2022 Still Isn’t Ready Yet. (Updated)

Last Updated November 18, 2023

SQL Server 2022

Six months ago today, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2022 was ready. Except it wasn’t. And it still isn’t ready. See, look at the very first hero in their list of 2022’s new features: The very first one is “Business continuity through Azure – Bidirectional DR to Azure SQL.” However, buried way down in the footnotes, Microsoft admitted:…

[Video] Office Hours: 25 Pretty Good Questions

Last Updated April 26, 2023

You post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see, and my job is to come up with accurate answers on the fly. Let’s see how I did. Here’s what we discussed: 00:00 Start 03:25 SickOf: Brent is there a backup product you can recommend? 04:38 OneEyebrowRaised: I’m noticing three significant shortfalls…

[Video] Office Hours: Live Q&A

Last Updated April 14, 2023

This one’s broken up into two parts because I took a bio break mid-stream: 00:00 Start 03:04 Clippy: Hey Brent, you are the best!!! Can you share us more about your roots? What’s the origin of your family name and where does it comes from? 04:15 I_ALSO_WANT_A_FERRARI: Hi Brent, first of all thank you for…

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Office Hours: Questions That Didn’t Make the Cut

Last Updated March 23, 2023

Production Database Administration

Sometimes, y’all post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and they don’t get a lot of upvotes, and reading through ’em, I bet it’s because other people don’t quite understand what you’re asking. I think there might actually be a good question at the heart of it, but … I’m just not sure what it is, and it needs…

Slow Startup, Failover, and Restore Times with In-Memory OLTP

Last Updated March 8, 2023

In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton)

When In-Memory OLTP came out, I worked with it briefly, and I remember coming away thinking, “Who in their right mind would actually use this?” I was so horrified that I wrote a presentation about it and gave it at a couple of conferences: Many laughs were had, but obviously that didn’t make me any…

Mastering Query Tuning

I’m Coming to Boston for SQLSaturday!

Last Updated March 7, 2023

Conferences and Classes

I’m coming back to Boston for SQLSaturday this October 14th! On Friday the 13th (muhaha), before the event, I’m teaching a one-day pre-conference workshop on Mastering Query Tuning. You need to speed up a SQL Server app, and you’re allowed to change the queries and indexes – but not the server hardware or settings. Good…

Looking Back at the 2022 #PASSDataCommunitySummit in Seattle

Last Updated November 21, 2022

I’m back home in Vegas, back down to Inbox Zero, and I’ve had some time to think about last week’s conference in Seattle. I liveblogged the keynotes, but I wanted to talk about the conference overall. This was Redgate’s first time running an in-person Summit after the professional organization folded in December 2020. Redgate bought…

#PASSdataCommunitySummit Keynote Day 3 Live Blog

Last Updated November 18, 2022

Today at the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, Kimberly Tripp is doing the first-ever in-person community keynote. Here’s the abstract: Over the 30+ years I’ve been working with SQL Server, I’ve seen an incredible amount of innovation and change. How do we keep up with so many changes and how do we know how…

#PASSdataCommunitySummit Keynote Day 2 Live Blog

Last Updated November 17, 2022

I’m in Seattle for the PASS Data Community Summit, and the day 2 keynote is about to start. This year, now that Redgate owns the Summit event, they’re doing the day 2 keynote. Gotta pay the bills, I suppose! Redgate’s CEO, Jakub Lamik, is leading a team of speakers for the keynote, and here’s the…