Sentences To My Younger Selves
I don’t have regrets – everything that’s happened to me so far has led to a life that I wouldn’t trade – but if I had the chance, I’d probably…
The #SQLNewBlogger Challenge from Ed Leighton-Dick
Today is the day you stop being afraid. SQLbits Speaker and Topic Board For a long time, you’ve been telling yourself, “Yeah, I should probably start blogging one of these…
How Do You Measure Your Career?
Us admins are really good at measuring systems. (Well, we’re probably not, but we tell ourselves that we are.) We have all these pretty dashboards and counters to tell us exactly…
No, the DBA role still isn’t going away.
Paging all dinosaurs to the retraining camp Last week at SQLRally, I heard yet another session with the line, “DBAs are dinosaurs.” And: “DBAs must learn the analytics and cloud right…
Being The Stig at SQLBits
For this year’s SQLBits costume party, I went as The Stig – Top Gear’s anonymous superhero race car driver: I only told a few people ahead of time, and I kept…
Epic Life Quest: Level 5 Achieved
Inspired by Steve Kamb’s Epic Quest, I’ve been working through my own Epic Life Quest since 2012. I’ve set up a list of future achievements, and whenever I cross off…
The Logistics and Economics of Speaking in Europe
I’m heading out on a tour through Europe to speak at SQLRally Nordic and SQLBits London. Here’s what the schedule looks like: Weds, Feb 25 – fly out of Chicago to Frankfurt.…
When Good Presentation Demos Go Bad
Sooner or later, despite your best efforts to rehearse, one of your demos will fail. You’re going to try to fix it really quickly without the audience noticing. It won’t work…
The Best Presentations are Based on Pain
Trying to figure out what to submit for 2015 conference abstracts? Over and over, I see people describing their session in terms of how awesome it’ll be, or what a great…
Questions You Should Ask Before You Take a Consulting Job
Because my friends and I run a kinda fun, funky consulting company, I hear from a lot of frustrated consultants that want to leave their positions and join our team.…
Hi, I’m Brent Ozar. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’m on an epic life quest to have fun and make a difference.
Some of my projects include Brent Ozar Unlimited, PollGab, and Smart Postgres.
I love teaching, travel, laughing, and collecting vintage sports cars. You can follow me on Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Bsky, Facebook, LinkedIn, Github, whatever.