BrentOzar

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by BrentOzar 26d ago
Nailed it. I constantly get “cold emails” that were clearly written by an AI that read 2-3 pages on my web site, my LinkedIn bio, and something else on my social media. They all follow the same formula: try to break they ice with something
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by BrentOzar 5mo ago
The cup holder situation, on the other hand… (992.1 owner)
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by BrentOzar 5mo ago
> What if an executive makes a wrong business decision I jokingly tell students, "We all know executives are gonna make bad decisions no matter what the data says. Might as well give them the random numbers more quickly."
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by BrentOzar 5mo ago
> This is basically the same as saying “databases weren’t designed for interns to run live inline migrations in prod”. Yeah of course they aren’t. And the same as saying "databases weren't designed for non-technical people to c
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by BrentOzar 7mo ago
> Back in the 1970's we'd pull a spark plug and screw in a hose to use the compression phase to inflate tyres. You'd inflate your tires with a gasoline and air mix?
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by BrentOzar 9mo ago
And why? Sometimes it's just amazing to look at how much dedication someone put into a list like this, and wonder what they do with this information. It's inspiring (to me at least.) In a park near my hotel, there's an elderl
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by BrentOzar 9mo ago
There are rumors that there were 2 pilots aboard, and that one of them accidentally triggered autoland, and they couldn't figure out how to turn it off: https://vansairforce.net/threads/garmin-emergency-autoland-i.
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by BrentOzar 9mo ago
> I have also seen this used in other formats quite successfully - Fandom/Wikia (used to?) use a MySQL database for each sub-site. Stack Overflow used it as well, with a database per site (DBA.StackExchange.com, ServerFault, SuperUs
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by BrentOzar 11mo ago
> If you are on AWS and AWS goes down, that's covered in the news as a bunch of billion dollar companies were also down. Customer probably gives you a pass. Exactly - I've had clients say, "We'll pay for hot standbys
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by BrentOzar 1y ago
Because I'm sure other people will ask - no, it does not support SQL.
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by BrentOzar 1y ago
That isn't a new phenomenon.
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by BrentOzar 1y ago
> what stops me is the sudden drop in corporate sponsorship of them. That's true in two ways: not only are less companies paying to send their attendees to training, but less companies are paying to sponsor these events as well.
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by BrentOzar 1y ago
> I'd be curious to hear how often newbies showed up to these SQL events pre-COVID. Large SQLSaturday events used to regularly get 300-400 attendees, and a good 10-20% of them were new to the field. I would regularly do a show-of-ha
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by BrentOzar 1y ago
You're right - Twitter used to generate FOMO amongst those not attending, plus make it easier for attendees to coordinate after-hours events. Both of those factors are diminished.
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by BrentOzar 1y ago
> The range only needs to cover the period between mandated brakes. I was confused there for a second until I realized you meant "breaks."
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by BrentOzar 1y ago
I have a hard time getting excited about this when they have such an atrocious record of handling pull requests in VS Code already: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls
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by BrentOzar 1y ago
Author here - whoa, didn’t expect this to hit HN. Here for any questions, but I think the post speaks for itself.
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
Summary of the video: 24 hours before the fatal helicopter-American CRJ midair crash, a similar event was prevented by TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system) because the plane was above 1000 feet altitude. It shuts off below that.
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
Yep, nothing's changed there around transactions.
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
It sounds like you're not training it with your existing code base, and that you're running it with relatively small contexts. Have you done any custom LLM training on your code base, and what model are you using?
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
> SQL Server is one of the few commercial DB's that does real nested transactions Not sure where this myth keeps coming from, but no, it does not: https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/a-sql-server-dba-myth-
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
Because it's more about trends than current rankings.
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
> Anyone knows which movie was that? Strange Days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film)
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
Can’t you send PDFs to a Kindle? Been a decade since I used one, but I vaguely remember that being a thing.
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
> no trouble uploading all of that data in less than a week When you're doing e-discovery, deadlines are often measured in days - not just for the upload time, but for the analysis and finding the needle in the haystack.
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
Physical honeypots.
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
The M4 Max goes up to 128GB RAM, and "over half a terabyte per second of unified memory bandwidth" - LLM users rejoice.
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
> How to with rental cars? Some credit cards like American Express offer their own insurance as part of the membership fee as long as you pay for the rental with their card, and decline the coverage offered by the rental car company.
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
> If I buy a good loose lab grown diamond will I be able to find someone who will fit it into a high quality gold ring? Yes, and even better, don't design the ring by yourself. Get a nice jewelry box for the diamond, use it for the
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by BrentOzar 2y ago
> Crowdstrike is finished Unlikely, just as Solarwinds wasn't finished when they distributed malware that got government agencies hacked. You underestimate the slow turning radius of giant company purchasing departments.

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