Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? December 2021 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of December 2021? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment m …
Today is the last day to buy a Live Class Season Pass, EVER.
Today is literally it. This is the end of an era. One of the most popular things I sell is my Live Class Season Pass, which gives you two cool things: The ability to drop in on any live online class that I teach for a year straight, plus The ability to …
My Black Friday sale ends tomorrow.
The countdown timer is on: you’ve got less than 48 hours to grab one of my massively discounted bundles and get the SQL Server training you’ve always wanted at a price your manager can live with: Level 1: Fundamentals$395per year(save $1,39 …
[Video] Office Hours: Black Friday Edition, Ask Me Anything About SQL Server
Yesterday, I finished setting up my new Apple MacBook Pro with the new M1 Max processor and did its first live stream on my Twitch channel to see how the hardware held up. I was tickled pink – worked great! Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Int …
[Video] Office Hours Speed Round: 17 Answers in 11 Minutes
Not all of your questions need detailed answers. In this speed round, I race through 18 answers in 11 minutes: Here’s what we covered: 00:11 UnfortunatelyPostgresIsCheaper: I know you’ve answered that, as far as u know, there isn …
[Video] Office Hours on the Balcony Part 2
Picking up right where we left off yesterday, we continue down through the not-so-highly-upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 00:22 Andrew from Canada: To Null or not to Null? Th …
NOLOCK Is Bad And You Probably Shouldn’t Use It.
I’m waiting for the YOLOck option.When you put NOLOCK in your query, SQL Server will: Read rows twice Skip rows altogether Show you changes that never actually got committed Let your query fail with an error This is not a bug. This is by design. …
Free Live Class This Week: Fundamentals of TempDB
You’ve been working with Microsoft SQL Server for a couple of years, and you know a little bit about TempDB. You’ve heard that temp tables and table variables have different performance characteristics than regular user database tables, and …
[Video] PASS Data Community Summit Keynote: 5 Ways the Cloud Impacts Your Career
Succeeding as a data professional is all about placing the right bets at the right times. The more you know about what’s happening around you, the better bets you can place. I’ve been working with databases for over two decades. In this ses …
[Video] Office Hours on the Balcony Part 1
I hang out on my balcony in San Diego with a gin & tonic and a bunch of your highly upvoted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introductions 01:33 FishCakesForTea: I have designed a filtered index fo …
SQL Server 2022 Slogan Contest Winners
Last week, I challenged y’all to come up with slogans for SQL Server 2022. I have to confess that when I came up with the idea for that blog post, I thought y’all would take it seriously. I thought you’d come up with ideas that were m …
Free Live Class This Week: Fundamentals of Columnstore
Your report queries are too slow. You’ve tried throwing some hardware at it: your production SQL Server has 12 CPU cores or more, 128GB RAM, and SQL Server 2016 or newer. It’s still not enough to handle your growing data. It’s already …
Is Microsoft SQL Server 2022 a Big Release?
Normally when y’all post questions here on Pollgab, I let ’em pile up and I eventually do an Office Hours webcast where I talk through my answers. I check in on the list every couple of days just out of curiosity, though, and one of ’ …
Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for November 2021
Just like you, the First Responder Kit has been pretty much stable for the last couple of months. There have been a few small changes, but nothing too big. There are a few pending pull requests that folks are working on around an open source setup …
Contest: SQL Server 2022 Needs a Slogan.
Now that Microsoft has announced that SQL Server 2022 is coming, it’s time for us to talk about a shameful truth: SQL Server doesn’t sell itself. Remember when everybody was talking about how MongoDB was Web Scale™? Or when Oracle was …