Brent Ozar – Page 2 – Sharing what I learn about community and consulting.

What It Costs to Live on a Cruise Ship

October 9, 2018

dream home, lotto, travel, window shopping

The World condo floor plan from one of the brochures Years ago, I saw a documentary show about The World, a condo cruise ship. People with at least $10M net worth could buy a home aboard, and then see the literal world go by their windows. When it first launched, it was both a condo and a regular cruise ship, offering nightly rentals for non-owners. The wealthy residents got understandably tired of cruise ship visitors, then bought the whole ship outright, kicking out the management company and running it themselves. These days, the ship is pretty private: CruiseMapper has old…

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How I Use a Mac but Work on SQL Server

October 2, 2018

computer, desk, productivity

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Kind of a convoluted title, I know, but I get questions like this every now and then: @BrentO read your article on your home setup, any chance there could be a follow up on how you have things configured? You’re using a Mac, but how do you do SQL stuff effectively on a non windows platform? Would be helpful to share any tips. — Chris Lumnah (@lumnah) September 25, 2018 Chris and I had a good conversation on Twitter, and I figured it’s time to post an updated version of how I work. I have a “fake job” – I’m…

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Building an Incoming Flights Display

September 18, 2018

hobby, home office, splitflap

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We live on the flight path to San Diego airport, and we like watching planes as they go by. One afternoon, we stumbled into the bar Nolita Hall. It’s also on the flight path, and they have skylights so you can watch the planes as they fly overhead. They have a big split-flap display behind the bar, and the bottom 3 lines show the next incoming flight: View this post on Instagram A beer list to envy. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Unless you come in to drink from it… Then you just get to enjoy⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ PC: @beersandcameras ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ /⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ /⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #NOLITAxFIFA…

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My Home Office Setup, 2018

August 14, 2018

computer, home office

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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 height presets, and I’ve got them set for sitting, standing, and standing on top of my Fluidstance balance board. (There’s also an Aeron chair out of frame – I wheel it around behind my desk when I’m not using it.) Computer: Apple MacBook Pro 15″ (2018) – 6-core Intel Core…

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

July 24, 2018

#sqlcareer, career

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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 Server together while we ask them questions about their database, indexes, queries, designs, RPO/RTO goals, hardware, and more. Day 2 – we split up. The client goes back to doing their thing, and we write the findings for them. (You can see examples of the findings on that page above.)…

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

July 19, 2018

#sqlcareer, career

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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 of anything on Wednesday, July 18th. That’s not rare – there are plenty of days where I feel like I don’t make enough progress. Thing is, Steve wanted us to share the tools we’re using and what problems we’re solving, and this post is pretty well devoid of that information…

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

July 18, 2018

#sqlcareer, career

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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 he said to do this four times – otherwise I’d feel guilty about just posting this one without more explanation. (I’ll do this again for July 18th because it’ll look totally different, but then hold off for a few days before posting another.) 4:07AM – I wake up without an…

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WordPress 4.9.6 GDPR Compliance Demo Videos

May 12, 2018

blogging, gdpr

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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 like to take part in the discussion about these features, here are a few useful links: WordPress GDPR compliance roadmap WordPress GDPR issues sorted by status Slack discussion – #gdpr-compliance channel in Make WordPress (weekly chats on Wednesdays at 1500 UTC)

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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

Brent Ozar Unlimited, business, sql constantcare

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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 before blogging. April 2013 – year two finished, so I blogged about year one. April 2014 – year three finished, so I blogged about year two. April 2015 – year four finished, so I blogged about year three. April 2016 – year five finished, so I blogged about year four. April 2017 – year…

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

March 20, 2018

consulting

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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 after seeing our pages in their Google results over and over again, and they figure we’re up for anything. They say something along the lines of, “I just need you to look at this one query and fix it.” And sometimes – not often, but usually when the prospect has…

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Hi. I’m Brent Ozar.