Epic Life Quest Task: Sold $500K in our Black Friday Sale.
In 2013, mostly just for laughs, I ran a Black Friday sale on BrentOzar.com. It did way better than I’d expected – turns out a lot of y’all love Black…
My #PASSsummit 2018 Session Evaluation Ratings & Comments
After big conferences, I like to share my session evaluations to talk about what worked and what didn’t. Let’s see how we did this year. Pre-Con: Performance Tuning in 21…
Building the 2018 Black Friday Sale at BrentOzar.com
For last year’s Black Friday sale, I set a goal of $500K in sales, then did a ton of prep work: Set up a new training class lineup with labs…
What’s In My Bag, 2018 Edition
I alternate between a few different backpacks depending on trip length, so I keep the core of my electronic gear in an organizer pouch. I can just toss this into…
What It Costs to Live on a Cruise Ship
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…
How I Use a Mac but Work on SQL Server
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…
Building an Incoming Flights Display
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…
My Home Office Setup, 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…
A Day in the Life of Brent Ozar: July 23, 2018 #SQLCareer
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.…
A Very Unproductive Day in the Life of Brent Ozar: July 18, 2018 #SQLCareer
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…
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.