Successfully Managing Upwards and Getting Your Boss on Your Side Part 1
Edwin M Sarmiento is a Filipino Microsoft Data Pla...
2019-05-23
Career Growth
2019-05-22
The Other Jobs
This week Steve is asking what jobs you might choose if you had the chance, as well as those you enjoyed, or perhaps dreaded.
2019-05-17
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Just What IS it That You Do?
This is a question that I get asked all the time. It’s fair enough, really. The most common assumption for people outside the field seems to be that that...
2019-05-06
How can we close the tech skills gap?
One of the most profound challenges faced by technology companies today is talent. According to the latest Harvey Nash survey, 65% of CIOs believe that a shortage of tech skills is affecting their ability to respond to change.
2019-05-03
The Space Between
Andy Leonard on finding the time to keep up with learning and avoiding time sinks.
2019-05-02
The Database Giveth and Taketh Away
A database error at Southwest Airlines confused some customers and was embarrassing. Steve worries that we might want to be more careful in the future about making database mistakes.
2019-04-25
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How the Company-Startup Thing Worked Out For Me, Year 7
It’s time for my annual update on the wild ride. If you want to catch up, check out past posts in the Brent Ozar Unlimited tag. This post covers...
2019-04-09
You're not really that good at SQL Server
Steve reminds some people that there are reasons to continue to improve your skills.
2019-04-08
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2017-06-16
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Blogs
Truncating very large transaction log in full recovery mode
By SQLPals
While I always configure transaction log backups for every database in non-simple recovery model,...
Autonomous Driving Around London
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There’s a video of Bill Gates taking a drive in an autonomous car around...
Best way to monitor high worker thread on SQL Server
It is common to see high worker count issue on the production server and...
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Remove the Dynamic code from my SQL sproc
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Significance of Historical waits report in SQL server Performance dashboard
I have the following historical wait report for my SQL server. I have noticed...
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