[Video] Creepy Office Hours in Vancouver
While in a hotel room in Vancouver for PGconf.dev, I strapped on my Apple Vision Pro headset to […]
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Query Exercise: Beat ChatGPT at Finding Good Question Times
What are the best days of the week and times of the day to post a question at […]
There’s a 6-Month Statute of Limitations on “The Last Person.”
“The last person must have set it up that way.” “The last person wrote that code.” “The last […]
[Video] Office Hours in a Hotel Room
While in Nashville for a creators conference, I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we […]
Two Tweaks for Faster Backups with Ola Hallengren’s Scripts
Ola Hallengren’s free maintenance solution is widely used as a replacement for SQL Server maintenance plans. It’s a […]
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? June 2024 ...
Is your company hiring for a database position as of June 2024? Do you wanna work with the […]
[Video] Office Hours: 16 Questions
Like Sixteen Candles, but different: I go through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Strangely, my video and audio […]
Coming in Entity Framework 9: Better Query Parameterization
Hallelujah. With current versions of Entity Framework, when developers add a mix of parameters and specific values to […]
This Is It! The Last 3 Days of My Anniversary ...
Every year in May, I look back at when I first registered BrentOzar.com way back in May 2001. […]
Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for May 2024
If you’ve hard-coded installer file names, there’s a big change in this release. There are now just 2 […]
Okay, About That SmartPostgres.com Thing.
In some of the Query Exercises posts here, you might have noticed links over to similar query exercises […]
[Video] Office Hours: I Feel Like an Amateur Edition
I started with audio problems, then had video problems halfway in. It’s amusing because we also discuss feeling […]
The Future of DBAs: History Rhymes
Eitan Blumin recently wrote a post about the future of the DBA career in which he talked about […]
[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 […]