This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie to discuss cloud server disaster recovery, Availability Groups troubleshooting, SQL Server deadlocks, slow tempdb latency, migrating to Azure, SQL Server 2017 gotchas, how to set up your dev environment when looking for a job, best allocation unit size for disks hosting data files and good replacement for linked servers.

Office Hours - 4/25/2018

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 - 4/25/2018

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