The Future of DBAs: History Rhymes
Eitan Blumin recently wrote a post about the future of the DBA career in which he talked about […]
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[Video] Office Hours: Answers for Your Database Questions
Y’all post questions and upvote the best ones at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, and I discuss ’em in my home office […]
Getting Data Out of an Audit Table: Answers & Discussion
In last week’s post, I gave you a trigger that populated a history table with all changes to […]
Why Generative AI Scares the Hell Out of DBAs
I was chatting with a client’s DBA about this thought-provoking blog post about data governance in the age […]
I’m Getting Antsy for SQL Server vNext.
Historically, Microsoft publicly announces the next version of SQL Server about a year before it ships. For example: […]
Who’s Changing the Table? Answers and Discussion
Your challenge for this week was to find out who keeps mangling the contents of the AboutMe column […]
SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Spring 2024
The short story: SQL Server 2019 appears poised to swallow the SQL Server market altogether, hahaha. The long […]
[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About Azure and Microsoft ...
Back at home in the office, time to settle in with a nice caffeine-free Diet Coke and go […]
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? May 2024 ...
Is your company hiring for a database position as of May 2024? Do you wanna work with the […]
Query Exercise: Who’s Changing the Table?
For this week’s Query Exercise, your challenge is to find out who keeps messing up the rows in […]
It’s Time For Our Annual Anniversary Sale!
I first registered BrentOzar.com way back in May 2001. Over the years, some things in databases have changed […]
Join Me at the PASS Data Community Summit in November!
On November 4 in Seattle, I’m presenting a new pre-conference workshop! Tuning T-SQL for SQL Server 2019 and […]
[Video] Database Answers in Hong Kong
As my time in Hong Kong came to an end, I sat inside on a foggy morning and […]
Troubleshooting Mysterious Blocking Caused By sp_getapplock
I’m kinda weird. I get excited when I’m troubleshooting a SQL Server problem, and I keep hitting walls. […]
It’s almost time for Fundamentals Week! Have you signed up ...
The Monday after next, I’ll be getting together with dozens of smart people who are a lot like […]
[Video] Office Hours: Hong Kong Harbor
I recently went to Shanghai & Hong Kong, and stopped to take your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento while sitting […]
How to Have a Conversation About Software Licensing
As a consultant, I sometimes see SQL Servers with high CPU core counts relative to their workload. For […]
Announcing Offline Access to Your BrentOzar.com Courses
So you’ve got an iPhone or iPad or Vision Pro, and you bought one of my training classes […]