Brent Ozar – Sharing what I learn about community and consulting.

My Home Office Setup, 2018

August 14, 2018

We moved to San Diego and I refreshed my computer hardware, so it’s time for another update in my home office blog post series. Here’s what I’m using: Home office 2018 Standing Desk: Xdesk Terra Pro – Expensive, but works wonderfully and is built to last. I love the 3…

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A Day in the Life of Brent Ozar: July 23, 2018 #SQLCareer

July 24, 2018

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Steve Jones asked data professionals to cover four days in our lives, so I blogged about a normal non-client-facing day, and then an unproductive day. Today is different: I’m client-facing. We specialize in a 3-day SQL Critical Care: Day 1 – we meet with the client to dig through their SQL…

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A Very Unproductive Day in the Life of Brent Ozar: July 18, 2018 #SQLCareer

July 19, 2018

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Yesterday, I blogged what I did in a random work day per Steve Jones’ suggestion. And yesterday, I said I’d blog today as well because it was going to be a different schedule. You shouldn’t read this. It’s useless. It’s useless because as I look back on it, I didn’t accomplish much…

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A Day in the Life of Brent Ozar: July 17, 2018 #SQLCareer

July 18, 2018

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Steve Jones asked data professionals to cover four days in our lives, so here goes the first post: what I did on Tuesday, July 17th, 2018. Nothing special about this day, just the day that Steve prodded me to take part, heh. My days are radically different, so I’m glad…

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WordPress 4.9.6 GDPR Compliance Demo Videos

May 12, 2018

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In Tuesday’s upcoming WordPress 4.9.6, there are a couple of new features to help with GDPR compliance. First, you can create a privacy policy page: Second, you can export a user’s data and erase it: The current schedule is for 4.9.6 to go out this Tuesday, May 15th. If you’d…

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Brent Ozar Unlimited, early 2016 at Cliff Lede in Napa

How the Company-Startup Thing Worked Out For Me, Year 6

March 28, 2018

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It’s time for my annual update on the wild ride. A brief recap of what’s happened so far: April 2011 – we started the company. April 2012 – year one finished, but I didn’t blog about it right away. I wanted to get it into the rear view mirror for perspective…

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Engagement Startup Costs: You Don’t Hire Consultants to Load Dishes

March 20, 2018

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“Whaddya mean you won’t do ___?” It’s a question I get every now and then from a prospective client. Most folks see our marketing, see that our consulting services page only has one thing on it, and understand that we’re very specialized. But every now and then, someone contacts us…

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Databases Eight Years from Today, 2018 Edition #TSQL2sday

March 13, 2018

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Almost exactly five years ago today, back in March of 2013, I wrote a post called Databases Five Years from Today. In it, I predicted: You’d still be supporting 2005 and 2008 – while the number of 7% of servers are still 2005 and 2008 might seem small, it means that on…

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The Road to PASS, Week 5: Submitting Your Abstract

March 6, 2018

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In this month’s Road to PASS series, I’m challenging you to submit an abstract for the PASS Summit: Week 1 challenged you to write a few pain points you’ve solved this year Week 2 was about writing the session’s recap slide Week 3 had you writing the abstract’s technical details Week 4 was…

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The Road to PASS, Week 4: Gathering Feedback

February 27, 2018

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In this month’s Road to PASS series, I’m challenging you to submit an abstract for the PASS Summit. Week 1 challenged you to write a few pain points you’ve solved this year, week 2’s homework was to write the session’s recap slide, and week 3 had you writing the abstract’s technical…

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