Why I’m Taking a Break from Teaching In-Person Classes
Let’s get one thing out of the way right away: I love teaching. I love seeing that “Ah-ha!” moment in a student’s eyes when they suddenly understand a concept. I…
My No-Free-Private-Answers Philosophy
When clients and class students email us a question, we answer. It’s not always right away, but since everybody in the team has access to our shared public email address,…
Epic Life Quest Task: Setting the Summit Pre-Con Attendance Record
When Erik and I got a PASS Summit pre-con this year, I asked Alison and Leeza a question out of morbid curiosity: what was the pre-con attendance record? They reported…
How to Understand Where a Software Vendor Employee is Coming From
I’ve had a lot of conversations with software vendor employees over the years, and I’ve noticed a few things. Understanding these will help you parse what you’re hearing. They’re working…
How to Automatically Tweet Your Stack Overflow Answers with Zapier
In our company Slack chat, we have a bot that alerts us whenever there’s a new SQL Server question at DBA.StackExchange.com. One day, a question came in, Erik got to…
Using Slack for Conference Session Q&A
Next month at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Erik Darling and I are teaching a one-day pre-conference class on performance tuning. We sold ~300 seats, which is awesome – but…
Tools We Use for Remote Work
A reader emailed in to ask: We are in the process of trying to move to working remotely more often. I know that your team for the most part are…
How I Manage Email and Tasks, 2017 Edition
In a recent SQLServerRadio.com podcast episode, @Guy_Glantser and @MatanYungman talked about how they organize their work. I wrote about how I managed emails and tasks in 2015, and a lot…
Dream Car Track Garage: 4 Cars, $100k
In my dream car garage series, I’ve assumed that the garage is at home – but what if it’s at the Autobahn Country Club? Yes, that’s an actual thing. In the…
Designing This Year’s PASS Summit Session
I’m honored to say that I’ll be presenting a session at the PASS Summit this year. The Summit is kinda like the Super Bowl of American SQL Server conferences: the…
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, Bsky, Facebook, LinkedIn, Github, and Reddit.