Brent Ozar is visiting Zhengzhou, China — Eve's hometown — and finds himself reflecting on AI and the future while watching locals do their morning exercises. He then turns to the top-voted questions submitted by listeners at pollgab.com/room/brento, covering topics ranging from large-scale integrity checks and tempdb bottlenecks to career advice for laid-off DBAs and how to leverage AI as a development DBA. It's a wide-ranging session that blends philosophical musing with practical, hands-on database guidance.

Brent Ozar is joining you from the dining room, which also happens to house a 1992 Honda Beat. He explains the story behind that unusual arrangement before diving into your top-voted questions sourced from pollgab.com/room/brento. Topics range from writing advanced database content to indexing strategies, in-memory features, consolidating vendor databases, and the future of AI-assisted querying.

Brent Ozar is in Las Vegas, working through viewers' top-voted questions submitted at pollgab.com/room/brento. This episode covers HADR_SYNC_COMMIT waits behind Always On availability group outages, whether to index valid_to or valid_from in temporal tables, enabling RCSI without introducing concurrency bugs, comparing SQL Server with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, whether SQL Server 2025 is safe to adopt yet, finding the queries eating your TempDB space, and choosing between a filtered index and a filtered statistic. Submit and vote on questions at pollgab.com/room/brento, and learn more at BrentOzar.com.

Brent Ozar was in Rome attending a teaching conference, staying in an AirBnB with a breathtaking view overlooking Rome and Vatican City. Over his morning coffee, he worked through your top-voted questions from pollgab.com/room/brento. He didn't cover many questions this episode — because some of them deserved really long, thorough answers, and he had a great time digging into each one.

Brent Ozar records this episode from a stunning black pebble beach in Iceland — not black sand, but smooth black pebbles that chime together as waves wash in and out. He works through your top-voted questions covering everything from database consolidation strategies and index maintenance deadlocks to caching, query plans, and whether you can build a great database career without a public online presence. He also weighs in on why conversations about data governance and medallion architecture can feel oddly cult-like.

Jökulsárlón is one of Brent Ozar's most beloved places on earth, where the great Vatnajökull glacier slowly melts into the sea. Chunks break free into the lagoon, pinned by incoming tides before floating out and washing ashore on the black sand as Diamond Beach — sparkling like gems in the Icelandic sun. It's a fittingly dramatic backdrop for a packed session of database questions.

Iceland's Seljalandsfoss is one of the most-photographed waterfalls in the world, thanks to its easy access from the Ring Road and a certain Justin Bieber music video. Brent Ozar makes his way to this iconic spot on the south coast to answer your top-voted database questions. From AI-powered query tuning to high-availability migrations and beyond, this episode covers a lot of ground — much like the Ring Road itself.