Read This Before Your Users Install SSMS 20
SQL Server Management Studio 20 Preview 1 is out, and the new connection dialog has a big change: […]
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ChatDBA: ChatGPT 4 Answers 5 Office Hours Questions
Every now and then, someone asks a question on PollGab about why I don’t use ChatGPT to answer […]
It’s Friday. I’m Not Answering These 14 Office Hours Questions.
Sometimes, I don’t care if questions get a lot of upvotes at https://pollgab.com/room/brento – I just don’t wanna […]
Office Hours Speed Round, Easy Text Answers Edition
Some of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento have easy one-line answers. Let’s knock ’em out: George: Hi […]
Office Hours: Questions That Didn’t Make the Cut
Sometimes, y’all post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and they don’t get a lot of upvotes, and reading through ’em, […]
Office Hours: Short Text Answers Edition
Not all of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long-winded responses. Brandon: Do you seen a rise […]
Office Hours, ChatGPT Edition: AI Answers 4 of Your Questions
In a recent Office Hours post, David Reabow suggested letting ChatGPT answer a few of the questions y’all […]
Office Hours: One-Word Answers Edition
Some of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento are pretty straightforward. Let’s get ‘er done. LetTheDbaHandleIt: My friend needs […]
Erik Darling’s Month of Free Tools Training
Over the past month (plus or minus a couple days), Erik Darling churned out dozens of posts to […]
Most DBAs Say They’re Encrypting Personally Identifiable Data. Most.
Despite the continuous stream of data breaches, ransomware, and GDPR violations, some companies still aren’t encrypting personally identifiable […]
Office Hours, Short Text Answers Edition
Not all of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long, thought-out answers. Some are just one-line specials, […]
Your Turn: I’m Not Answering These 13 Office Hours Questions
Normally, after I do a round of Office Hours of going through the questions that got posted at […]
Let’s Make September Our Free Community Tools Awareness Month.
Last week, I was reading a brand new article from a Microsoft employee about how you should directly […]
Office Hours Speed Round, Text Edition
Not all of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento are hard – some of ’em can be answered […]
Office Hours Speed Round: Text Edition
I recorded an Office Hours stream answering a bunch of your questions quickly, but…I forgot to turn on […]
Office Hours, Text Edition: No-Brainer Questions
Not all questions require a video answer. Here are some simple no-brainer ones: Q: BehindTheScenesDBA: With all its limitations, […]
Meme Week: SQL Server 2012 as of 2022
This week, I’m writing blog posts that can be summed up in one image. Here’s the first one: […]
What Trace Flags Are You Using, and Why?
Most of the time, when you need to change SQL Server’s behavior – like how it handles memory […]
Don’t Use SQL Server to Send Emails.
I would like to unsubscribe from this idea. I’m not talking about Agent alerts when jobs fail. That’s […]