This week, Richie and Tara discuss Richie's current projects, Availability Groups, offloading reads and backups, applying service packs, whether production should ship agent jobs to production recovery server, security checks and scans in SQL Server, CPU performance issues upgrading to SQL Server 2016 and 2017, database backups and restores, whether there's currently a DBA shortage, and Richie's favorite board game.

Office Hours - 11/8/2017

SQL Server Pain Relief: Office Hours is like listening in while patients bring their SQL Server pains to the emergency room, and the doctors give their opinions. Join your host, performance tuning specialist Brent Ozar, and his highly-qualified SQL Server Medical Team as they give you an inside look into some of the best solutions to your server problems. Tune in to get the best tips for performance tuning, virtualization, disaster recovery and much more. When you’re ready to do your own surgery, grab our free First Responder Kit at www.BrentOzar.com.

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This week, Erik and Richie discuss TSQL classes, scalar functions, index reorganize vs rebuild, daily image backups on a fringe SQL server on VMWare, number of databases per AG, best practices for ETL operations, and more!

Office Hours - 12/12/2018

This week, Tara and Richie discuss deletes on heaps, Docker, using containers in production environment, advice for new DBA, downgrading server hardware, agent jobs, setting SQL Memory Min and Max to the same value, how to prove CPU pressure to management using the Power BI report using blitz prox, corruption, patching, backups, sargability, and more.

Office Hours - 12/5/2018

This week, Brent, Tara, and Richie discuss storing phone numbers in a database, forced parameterization, how AI will affect DBA jobs in the future, what languages a DBA needs to learn, backup issues, measuring the overhead of transparent data encryption in terms of CPU on SQL Server, starting SQL server without tempdb, and much more!

Office Hours - 11/28/2018

This week, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss using Docker in dev environment, in-place upgrades, disaster recovery, the minimum amount of CPU and RAM for new SQL Server VMs, troubleshooting long-running SQL agent jobs, dbcc checkdb running longer than normal, and more.

Office Hours - 11/14/2018

This week, Tara and Richie discuss offline file database and log backup solutions, VSS database backups, monitoring products, parameterization, page latch waits, SQL ConstantCare™, and Availability Groups on 2017 Standard Edition.

Office Hours - 11/8/2017

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