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12 Office Hours Questions I Don’t Have Answers For

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Hey, you! You look smart. Here are highly-upvoted questions that fellow readers submitted at https://pollgab.com/room/brento that I don’t have answers for. If you’d like to jump into the comments, you can reference questions by number with your answers. Time to show off your brains! Kansas4444 asks: Hi Brent, do you have any advice on calculating…
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[Video] Office Hours at Breiðamerkursandur, Diamond Beach

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Post your Azure SQL DB and SQL Server questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me discuss. In this episode, I’m overlooking Breiðamerkursandur, Diamond Beach, one of the most Instagrammed places in Iceland. Here’s a shot from a prior trip when I climbed up on one of the icebergs: This time…
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[Video] Office Hours at Jökulsárlón Glacial Lagoon

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Post your Azure SQL DB and SQL Server questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me discuss. In this episode, I’m at Jökulsárlón Glacial Lagoon, a wonder of nature, watching the icebergs pile up, stuck in the lagoon due to the incoming high tides. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:15…
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[Video] Office Hours at the Blue Lagoon

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Road trip time! I’m recovering from jet lag after flying over to Iceland, so I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:55 Shehroz Sabzwari: What are your pros / cons for running on-prem SQL Server in a VM versus bare metal? 02:04 adba: what are your recommendations for…
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[Video] Office Hours: Overly Caffeinated Edition

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After consuming waaaay too much coffee, I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 03:53 It’s ‘a me: Is there a feature in SQL that Microsoft abandoned that you wish they had perfected? 05:43 TheEveryDayDBA: My friend asks, he is using sp_blitzIndex on a OLAP db workload. Quite a…
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[Video] Office Hours: All About Miles Edition

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Today’s webcast featured an awful lot of questions from one particular person who was super-active at https://pollgab.com/room/brento: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:03 Miles: Hi Brent, I am aware of “sp_statement” completed and sp_batch_completed events in trace and extended events. But, what is the use of rpc_completed event? How this event will be helpful…
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[Video] Office Hours: I Need Your Help with These

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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…
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[Video] Office Hours in Telluride, Colorado

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We headed up to the mountains to get away from the Vegas heat. Before the sun rose, I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.   Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:36 Ozan: Hi Brent, how should Volume Snapshot Backups (VSS) be configured correctly that it will not freeze the database’s IO for a couple…
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Office Hours: Before Heading Out on Vacation

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I took a break from packing my bags long enough to answer your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 02:42 T-man: Hi BO. A friend has multiple Distributed AGs (on separate business division servers) but needs to share ODS data with each of the DAG DBs. Any near-real time architecture ideas…
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[Video] Office Hours: Stump Me On SQL Server

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I went through the top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento and discussed ’em live on my Twitch channel.   Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:39 tanchenglai: Hi Brent! We bought your Level 2 Bundle last year. Recently, we went into frequent thread pool issues; we suspect it is due to high CPU utilization. Our IT manager…
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[Video] Office Hours: Extended Answers Edition

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Y’all posted so many good questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento that I went longer than usual this time: Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Start 02:17 Tanchenglai: Hi Brent, recently we always ran into thread pool issue. I checked Performance Dashboard and found that CPU spiked over 80% occasionally. I suspect apps can’t connect after…
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[Video] Office Hours While the Pool Refills

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I step away from the backyard long enough to take y’all’s questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Start 02:23 Stockburn: Hi Brent, we are using distributed always on AGs, with a node in AWS for DR. We are thinking of using this to quickly migrate the work load to the…
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[Video] Office Hours: Stump Me With Your Data Questions

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There are only a couple weeks left in this summer’s marathon of Office Hours sessions, which means there’s limited time left to ask your toughest database problems (not trivia questions) at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Start 03:22 tanchenglai: Hi Brent, I have implemented a system that records data in another…
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[Video] Office Hours: Overheating Cadillac Edition

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I took your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento before heading out to pick up my Cadillac from the mechanic. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 04:50 JudgeDredd: Hi Brent, have you ever been asked for opinion/expertise (as a database specialist) in a court trial? If yes, could you share some details? 07:10 Aart Bluestoke: A maximum of…
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[Video] Office Hours: SO MANY Good Questions

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Seriously, how do y’all keep coming up with so many great questions? I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento/ on a live stream on my Twitch channel, like I do on most Wednesdays & Thursdays, and really enjoyed these: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 04:14 Groove_timer: Hey Brent, Trying to convince my employer…
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[Video] Office Hours: While Stack Overflow is Down

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Stack Overflow was down, so y’all posted questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and I gave ’em my best shot. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 04:33 Amir: Does Az-900 worth the effort and money? What about other microsoft certifications? 06:16 Mr. M: Hi Brent. Which feature in SQL Server you like the most? 08:43 Q-Ent: Hi Brent,I…
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[Video] Office Hours: 30 Minutes of Rapid-Fire (And a Little Burnination)

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Almost all of today’s questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento were great! Well, except two. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 02:13 Andrei: What’s the appropriate response/punishment for developers who insist on storing json and xml in nvarchar(max) fields? 03:43 JustGoogleIt: What are your thoughts on Jeff Moden’s “Black Arts” Index Maintenance — GUIDs v.s. Fragmentation? How would…
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[Video] Office Hours: DBA & Developer Relationships

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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…
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