Backup design, restore testing, integrity checks, and corruption response.
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I took a break from my Black Friday sale customer support emails to check in on the questions you posted at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and answer the highest-voted ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CyC70X5Bo
Ask questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you'd like to see me cover.
https://youtu.be/QXn5Dc84KSU
Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you'd like to see me discuss during my live streams. This week, I took a break from working on my PASS Summit sessions in order to chat:
https://youtu.be/95e5CBDI2Ck
Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you'd like to see me cover. In today's episode, I sit down on a quiet hotel balcony and talk through a bunch of interesting questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJAwgkhq_Z0
Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you'd like to see me cover. In today's episode, I sit down on a quiet hotel balcony and talk through a bunch of interesting questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQxkIULzKZY
Post your Microsoft data platform questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you'd like to see me answer. I sat down by the pool in Cabo with a cup of coffee to go through 'em:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGVl1NWp2zU
I hopped down to Cabo San Lucas and sat at the End of the World to answer the questions you posted & upvoted at https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnhFkaCVv_8
Not all of the questions you post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long answers. Here's a quick speed round:
https://youtu.be/ABGL8CjAK4A
Got questions for me? Post 'em at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you'd like to see me cover. I filter out the ones that are too short for video answers, and here's the latest batch:
Corrupted: Should DBCC CheckDB be run on secondary replicas in AG as well ? Is it recommended to attach corrupted database to Prod server, to check how your integrity check job will react ?
Post your questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you'd like to see me cover. Today, I'm dodging work, so I went through your questions while I waited for the coffee shop to open:
https://youtu.be/xBxvb6vy97U
Not all of the questions you post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento are hard. Some of 'em can be answered in one line:
Q: accidentalDBA: Hi Brent, My friend is moving from two physical servers (production + failover) to VMs on the same host and SAN. His manager wants to keep log shipping as a DR solution. I advised against this as most disasters would affect both VMs equally. Am I missing something?
In ten minutes, let's cover as many questions as possible from https://pollgab.com/room/brento:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwW-orDLwDY
On a cross-country trip, I stopped in Moab, Utah and answered your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbrGmJGOL_o
Some questions that come in at https://pollgab.com/room/brento have such straightforward answers that I don't need to cover them on video. It's time for a rapid-fire speed round:
Q: Uncle Buck: Is there a good way to tell if a given include column for a NC index is being used at all?
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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wV64rqwxSk
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-W247nIBM4
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grzauq0qiV8
Got SQL Server questions? Post 'em at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the questions you'd like to see me discuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmmaAwf4r4k
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSfJmaY5sL8
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcPyx-5jWGM
