[Video] Office Hours: Speed Round Edition


Not all of the questions you post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long answers. Here’s a quick speed round:

Here’s what we discussed:

00:00 Introductions 00:24 EngineHorror: Hey Brent! What’s your opinion on page- and row-level compression in general? Is it true it increases locking besides burning extra CPU? 01:08 Pony: Is Microsoft Assessment and Planning tool (MSAP) still best tool for discovering SQL Servers within a company? are there better or alternative tools for this ? We need this to build inventory list of SQL servers we have 01:21 DBA Champion: What monitor would you recommend for