The Ebb and Flow of AI
It's the end of the year. Everybody's coasting and looking back. Let's kick our heels up, get comfortable, and talk big picture industry stuff.
You and me, our weirdo jobs involve:
DBA Careers and Professional Practice
DBA work, career development, hiring, role expectations, and team practices.
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How to Explain What We Do
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.
[Video] Office Hours: Salem Witchcraft Edition
It's spooky time again! I visited Salem, Massachusetts again this year, this time for a friend's wedding. I ended up in the same spot next to the Charter Street Cemetery that I filmed at last year! I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4WtTm3O4bA
[Video] Consulting Lines
In my consulting work, I often find myself saying the same things to clients - but they're not the kinds of things I said when I was a database administrator. I call these "Consulting Lines", and I talked through 'em:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCA0Oz-uk-s
[Video] Office Hours in Haines, Alaska: No Bears Here
While in beautiful Haines, Alaska along the Chilkoot River, I stopped to take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://youtu.be/esrXsRZo_gU
[Video] Office Hours: Icy Strait Point, Alaska
I'm on a boat! We took an Alaska cruise with some friends aboard the Norwegian Jewel. En route to Icy Strait Point, Alaska, I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzlKubfSaDs
[Video] Office Hours: Open Q&A on Microsoft Databases
I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento while recovering from a late night of partying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iS1uJCDmMA
[Video] Office Hours: Open Q&A About Databases
I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento plus hit live ones from the TikTok viewers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDx-OnTHezA
[Video] Office Hours: Database Q&A
I went live on TikTok and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98zeXqpBRQ
About Half Of You Don’t Have Your Databases Under Control.
I ran a poll over on LinkedIn to find out if people have 100% of their databases under some kind of source control or version control.
I broke the answers up into two sets, developers and non-developers, because I had a hunch that the developers' answers would be very different than the rest, and indeed they were:
[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About #SQLServer
I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento, including a few career-oriented ones:
https://youtu.be/GefrKvKfG1Q
[Video] Office Hours with a Special Guest: Count Distinct
I was busy, so I asked a friend to fill in for me and answer your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. He did a pretty good job:
https://youtu.be/oaRIxcf8sKE
[Video] Office Hours: Database Answers from a Hotel Room
I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento before heading out to PGConf.dev in Vancouver.
https://youtu.be/sd6yO-nHDx0
There’s a 6-Month Statute of Limitations on “The Last Person.”
"The last person must have set it up that way."
"The last person wrote that code."
T-SQL & Development
The Future of DBAs: History Rhymes
Eitan Blumin recently wrote a post about the future of the DBA career in which he talked about the rise of jack-of-all-trades IT professionals. It's a good post. You should read it. I did, and over the last 20 years, I'm pretty sure I've read a dozen variations of that post.
There's a saying: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
T-SQL & Development
#TSQL2sday Roundup: The Most Recent Issues You Closed.
For this month's TSQLTuesday, I asked y'all to describe the most recent issues you closed.
If you ask someone in IT, "What do you do for a living?" they struggle with job titles. They say things like:
[Video] Office Hours at Megunticook Falls in Camden, Maine
While in historic and beautiful Camden to hang out with friends, I went to Megunticook Falls and answered your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://youtu.be/QA8jlLfsC0U
Office Hours, Silent Film Edition
Hey, remember in yesterday's video how I said I was having a really bad day? Well, here's how bad it was - I recorded two videos in a row, and I forgot to turn my microphone on for the second video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXcDlrLXZvw
Office Hours: “Read This” Edition
Sometimes when people post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, the answer is just a link, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't make sense for me to rehash something that's been covered really well online, and I want to link 'em to the best resource possible. Petr: Huge slowdown of basic queries when using a partitioned table (Partition_Key…
[Video] Office Hours: Having a Bad Day Edition
The first day back after a long vacation is always rough, and today's no exception. I took your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento in an effort to turn things around and get back in the groove:
https://youtu.be/hvIXTnwh4Sg
