BrentOzar

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by BrentOzar 2y ago
To anyone considering writing for Pakt, you owe it to yourself to read any random 5 of their books, and then consider whether you want your name to be attached to that reputation. The books really are that bad. I think less of someone when
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
Read that link carefully: only automatic plan regression is available in SQL Server, not the automatic index tuning portion. The index tuning portion only applies to Azure SQL DB.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
Source? I’ve been working with SQL Server for a couple of decades and I don’t believe it will automatically create or drop indexes under any circumstances. You might be thinking of Azure SQL DB.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> Is a nuke particularly expensive or something? Google tells me they are less than a billion dollars each. Yeah but that's from Shein, and you don't wanna buy your nukes from a company that uses child labor and unsustainable m
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
"Bootstrapped" from a super-cushy Manhattan office building, heh.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
I had to laugh at the photos of "high end luxury vehicles" - Subarus.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> What happened to the shipping container? Who owned the rural property? Where was the shipping container going? Everyone's going to feign ignorance. The container owner will say they didn't realize the container had been stole
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> I wonder why the caching layer can't just pass any query it is unable to process on to the underlying database? Because sometimes it's not about the query you pass in - it's about a new data type, for example. The layer
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
In the Microsoft SQL Server space, several of these vendors have come and gone. My clients have been burned badly by 'em, so a few quick lessons learned: Be aware that there are hundreds of open issues[0] and dozens of pull requests [1
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> No macOS or Linux support... Nothing in the Github feature roadmap for either one, either.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
Just like it was for the first iPhone.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> it was a pretty unanimous "Toyota wins." Part of the reason is that Toyota uses really conservative, classic engineering. They sell things that have worked well for decades, and they're hesitant to introduce new features
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> However I got pulled over by the police for speeding about quarterly in the BMW, and have not been pulled over a single time in more than five years in my new car. In car fan circles, this is called a “sleeper” - a car whose boring des
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
I’m not excusing the wild number, but just tossing out some additional load: * Drivers checking in for work, especially if the apps poll automatically * Drivers phoning home with live location updates * Restaurants sending automated update
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> I don't think this will go well for him. It can’t go a whole lot worse than how the current trial is going, and that’s his gamble.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
If Apple wanted to make the iPhone a computer replacement, and all that was holding them back was USB-C, they would have added it in a long time ago. They didn’t. They waited until the EU made them switch to USB-C.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> I also realized that storage's performance had very little to do with the benchmark's scores as in order to game the benchmark one would simply add more memory. Reminds me of the time [1] Fusion-IO showed how good their drive
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> If driving for Uber instead caused you to have 500,000 miles on it Try to find a 2010 Prius with over 300,000 miles. There are only a handful in the US because they fall apart long before 500,000 miles. Depreciation isn't just abo
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> And why did they resign and not wait to get fired? Is that a us thing? Got jobs elsewhere, started consulting, etc.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> Just with SQL Server alone, for decades now you can store BLOB data. Yes, and for decades, it's been a bad idea for SQL Servers that grow over time. When you store files in the database, you massively inflate the size of the data
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> So you believe that your website made today will still be a good marketing tool 100 years from now? No, the business will be closed . It would just serve as an archive of history.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
There's a perfect use case for this: if you think your company stands a chance of running out of money in the future, but you just got an infusion of VC funding now... $38K isn't a large amount. $38K is an insurance policy that wi
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> $31.66 a month for a wordpress hosting plan is an absolute rip-off. Today, maybe. For the human costs of hosting support in 2123, given the cost of inflation, it might not be, and these plans include technical support. (Although you co
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> From the back row, I watched my friends scroll their social media feeds with ferocious intensity. Meh, groups taking short rides in long SUVs like he talks about here, that's a good time to catch up on social media before everyone
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> the calm demeanor shown by both ATC and pilots My ex-wife was a US air traffic controller, and the training they go through is stunning. They're tested continuously for years , with something like an 80% wash-out rate. During tes
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
Cut ours by over 40% too: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2023/06/aws-aurora-cut-our...
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> Technician busts out the ODB code-reader I assume you mean OBD (on board diagnostics), not Ol Dirty B*stard, who has a very different set of codes.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
> What will improve SO is if you had an AI that could downvote bad answers and questions and especially find duplicates Yes, because if there's one thing Stack Overflow needed, it was more negativity. /s
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
With an RTX 4090, you can crank out several images per minute, even at high resolutions.
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by BrentOzar 3y ago
This feels way less intuitive than SQL: UPDATE counters SET value = value + 1 WHERE name LIKE 'prefix.%'

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