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This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss whether you need to premake a destination database in order to run sp_databaserestore, rest...
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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...

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss whether you need to premake a destination database in order to run sp_databaserestore, rest...

This week, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss disaster recovery, Python vs C# for SQL Server, whether you should perform log backups on primary...

This week, Erik and Richie discuss TSQL classes, scalar functions, index reorganize vs rebuild, daily image backups on a fringe SQL server o...

This week, Tara and Richie discuss deletes on heaps, Docker, using containers in production environment, advice for new DBA, downgrading ser...

This week, Brent, Tara, and Richie discuss storing phone numbers in a database, forced parameterization, how AI will affect DBA jobs in the...

This week, Brent, Tara, and Erik discuss update statistics, how soon it is safe to use a new version of SQL Server, VMs vs physical servers,...

This week, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss using Docker in dev environment, in-place upgrades, disaster recovery, the minimum amount of CPU a...

This week, Tara and Richie discuss offline file database and log backup solutions, VSS database backups, monitoring products, parameterizati...

This week, Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss load balancing, preventing auto-updates, compatibility modes, capturing deadlock chains wit...

This week, Brent, Tara, and Richie discuss increasing a table's varchar field from 1 to 2, predicting how long CHECKDB should take, SQL Serv...

This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss small vendor apps, "Slow in the Application, Fast in SSMS?", virtualization, licensing, msdb back...

This week, Brent, Tara, and Richie discuss splitting large database files across multiple files, security auditing solutions, what Brent is...

This week, Tara and Richie discuss database corruption, CLR, DBCC issues, adding identity columns to databases, distributed transactions, tr...

This week, Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss moving views between databases, Cluster Quorum File Share on AlwaysOn, checking for corrupt...

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss syncing logins and database data via log shipping, monitoring page life expectancy, cumulat...

This week, Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss whether you should keep autoshrink on, AG multisite failovers, next version of SQL Server,...

This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss Microsoft cumulative updates, AlwaysOn Encrypted, query tuning, poison waits, the DBA career, CXP...

This week, Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss error log issues, issues with moving a 2-node AG to a different VM, adding a rowversion col...

This week, Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss troubleshooting port blocking, page life expectancy issues, problems with turning off CPU s...

This week, Erik and Richie discuss monitoring tools, finding all unused tables across databases, query tuning, deleting vs hanging on to ind...

This week, Erik and Richie discuss whether it's relevant to specify data in logs in SQL cloud environment, licensing, using canary tables on...

This week, Brent, Richie, and Tara discuss their SQL server specialization, CPU-ready time, making SSIS changes globally rather than one at...

This week, Brent, Richie, and Erik discuss best account practices for SQL Server, change tracking, disabled indexes, measuring queries to ga...

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss using SQL Server 2016 vs 2017 for production environment, reporting, reindexing jobs, Azure...

is week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss using foreign keys in a data warehouse, SQL Server virtualization on Hyper-V clusters, having all o...

This week, Brent and Richie discuss using full-text index, Elasticsearch, server restart issues, sp_blitzfirst, Always On availability group...

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss index maintenance, stats updates, the acquisition of GitHub, using linked servers to move t...

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara and Richie discuss severity 16 error warning, best way to move databases from SQL 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2014, a...

This week, Brent, Tara, and Richie discuss relaying SQL Server performance updates to upper management, differential backups in AlwaysOn Ava...

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie are back in action again to and are discussing sys.dm_db usage stats, Availability Group troublesho...

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie to discuss cloud server disaster recovery, Availability Groups troubleshooting, SQL Server deadlock...

This week Drew Furgiuele joins Brent and Richie to discuss patching, job interview suggestions, using PowerShell to solve various SQL Server...

This week Edwin M Sarmiento joins Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie to discuss high availability disaster recovery, migrating from on-prem serve...

This week, Pinal Dave joins Brent, Tara, and Richie to discuss replication latency, partitioning tables, transactional replication, troubles...

This week, Erik and Richie discuss what to do first at a new job that never had a DBA before, basic vs advance DBA skills, tempdb files, dow...

This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss replication, SQL Source Control with Git, installing service packs in cumulative updates in SQL S...

This week, Brent, Tara, and Richie discuss VLF issues, SSAS tabular performance support, certification tests, query documentation tools, wha...

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss database restores, opening a case with Microsoft, buying a pre-built server vs building you...

This week, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss cloning databases without 3-rd party software, tips for upgrading from 2005 to 2017, archiving dat...

This week, Brent, Tara, and Richie discuss the lack of backward compatibility for SQL Server backups, deploying SQL Server on VMs with share...

This week, Brent, Tara, and Richie discuss a simple way to fill tempdb, tools for retrieving data from transaction logs, tools for diagramin...

This week, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss 3rd-party tools for object-level restore, patching, stringing multiple CTEs, Meltdown and Spectre,...

This week Brent, and Richie discuss validating backups using the backup set table, how to figure out if you're a Mid-Level or Senior DBA, ro...

This week Brent and Richie discuss the latest big Intel CPU security flaw, distributed transactions, rebuilding indexes, SQL Server health c...

This week Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss truncating & repopulating, failed logins, their choice for high availability, PowerBI, read commit...

This week Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss virtualization, replication & mirroring, switching SQL service logins to an AD account, temporal ta...

This week Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss filestream waits, what to use instead of filestream, Availability Groups & clusters, implicit data...

This week Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss whether you need to know T-SQL to be a Senior DBA, if you should use SQL Server 2017 for productio...

This week, Brent and Richie discuss the new Power BI Dashboard, designing a new backup structure, creating SSRS reports, the difference betw...

This week Brent, Erik, Richie, and Tara discuss Docker, writing to different servers in different locations, SAN Replication, reducing the s...