Installation, configuration, automation, health checks, and governance controls.
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Iceland has some pretty famous waterfalls, from Þórufoss and Skógafoss in Game of Thrones, to Háifoss in Stranger Things, to Dettifoss in Prometheus, and more. However, probably the most-photographed one is Seljalandsfoss, partially because of its easy access from the Ring Road, and partially because of, uh, Justin Bieber's video for I'll Show You. That video is also a pretty good intro to the greatest hits of Iceland's south coast.
You might notice that the advice you get from Copilot in SSMS isn't very good, but it isn't necessarily AI in general. Part of the problem is something specific about SSMS Copilot and the way it prompts LLMs, and I wish I could tell you exactly what it is, but I can't because I don't have access to how SSMS is changing your prompts.
I'm up in North Bay, Ontario, Canada for the 2026 Can-Am Curling Cup run by Aaron Bertrand - and my team actually won!
Let's bask in the warmth (cough) of our glory as we go through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
My tripod is probably never gonna recover from the salt water, but the water was so nice that I couldn't resist. This is a 360 video, so you can grab the screen and move it around to see Magens Bay in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, as I go through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
Your queries won’t tune themselves. My 2027 Live Class Season Pass is $995 (normally $4,395), with live Fundamentals and Mastering classes plus recordings. Register by October 31 to join Fundamentals Week, November 2–6. See the pass. Let's start with a 7-minute demo video - I didn't edit this down because I want you to be…
It's an overcast afternoon at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas, so since I can't go into the water, might as well go through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://youtu.be/1c0K-WJ-itk
On the world's largest floating electronic dance music festival, I took your top-voted database questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk1kb6fM21E
You're busy, so I'll keep this short.
Several months from now, you're gonna have a salary review. Your manager is going to ask what you've been up to, and you're not going to have a lot of great answers. Copilot isn't tracking your successes for you.
The Dotonbori area of Osaka is like a video game version of Japan: wild, over-the-top neon signs, awesome street food, cool street markets, Kabuki theater on a revolving stage, and more. It's very touristy, but as touristy places go, it's fantastic. Last year when I was here, I filmed Office Hours at the river, but this time around let's go into one of the side streets where the food vendors gather.
I really wanted to film Office Hours on the Great Wall of China, but the instant I got out there, I realized it was a lost cause. That place was SO overwhelming - tons of people, frigid winds, heights, totally overwhelming in every way. So, instead you get a nice peaceful park in downtown Zhengzhou,…
I drove the Graffiti Gulf out to The Last Spike (video) outside of Las Vegas and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcNJVJ1-XaE
When there's a performance emergency, a lot of us perform the same manual tasks over and over. We run sp_BlitzWho or sp_WhoIsActive, look for blocking, long-running or out-of-control queries, and kill them. I'm going to build a new sp_kill for the First Responder Kit to make that easier, faster, and safer, and I want your…
I love SQL Server, and I'm excited for the release of 2025. I think the query processing keeps getting better, which means your apps are gonna go faster, with less code changes. The AI stuff is a little fluffy, and I don't think time will be kind to it, but I totally understand why Microsoft…
Let's hang out in the backyard - as recently seen on Zillow Gone Wild - and take your top-voted questions from https://PollGab.com/room/brento.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKd30ILb7ys
I'm back at home in Vegas, taking your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento on a hillside enjoying the fall desert weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXwD-nJ2K3c
Your queries won’t tune themselves. My 2027 Live Class Season Pass is $995 (normally $4,395), with live Fundamentals and Mastering classes plus recordings. Register by October 31 to join Fundamentals Week, November 2–6. See the pass.
Somehow I missed this a few years ago, and I bet a lot of y'all did too. Note the new "Recommended" column in the memory settings documentation:
The first few questions from this week's crop at https://pollgab.com/room/brento are very much about what-problem-are-you-trying-to-solve, but they get more complex from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWDUgd_8ZNo
Wanna hear about my worst job interviews? I drove up to 8,000 feet where it's 30 degrees colder than Las Vegas to bring you these answers to your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. The audio's a little odd on here because it was really windy, and I had to use noise reduction in post-production.
There was an interesting post on Reddit yesterday asking what DBA jobs are like these days. Here's a snippet of the most important part: Our friend works for maybe 15 hours a week, on call for maybe 40 but is always running around not in front of his computer. She works odd hours, takes the…
You know how you put "https://" at the beginning of web site addresses, and your browser can magically talk to all kinds of web servers, all over the world? Well, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard for AI stuff to talk to other things. It's like http for AI. It's less than a…
