[Video] Office Hours: Oddball Questions Edition


The last Office Hours of 2023 featured some oddball questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Not bad, just … odd.

Here’s what we covered:

00:00 Start 03:04 TheMooneyFlyer: Hey Brent, how do you work on optimizing sp that performs insert/update/delete? Does putting the exec within a begin tran / rollback is a good option? 06:06 MyTeaGotCold: If a table is empty and I absolutely know that nobody else is using it, should I always insert in to it WITH (TABLOCK)? What if it’s a temp table? 07:09 Tonia S: Have you tried the mock DBA interviews with ChatGPT? Very realistic? 09:11