[Video] Office Hours: 30 Minutes of Rapid-Fire (And a Little Burnination)


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 you configure index maintenance on databases with mostly GUIDs for the clustered indexes but some ints sprinkled in? 04:31 Eli: Any thoughts on whether the availability of NVMe storage interfaces on Azure Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VMs will finally help close the