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October 13, 2026 · 29 min

This is the third Office Hours in a row recorded from the same cruise ship. Brent Ozar is aboard the Norwegian Encore on the last Alaskan cruise of the 2026 season, answering questions submitted at pollgab.com/room/brento. Topics include…
Database Questions from the Last Alaskan Cruise of the Season

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Brent Ozar is aboard what he describes as the very last Alaskan cruise of the season — a trip he chose on purpose. In this episode, he answers your top-voted questions from pollgab.com/room/brento, covering topics ranging from columnar…
AI, Shoemakers, and the End of the World at Cabo San Lucas

September 29, 2026 · 43 min

This is a Very Special Episode™ of Office Hours with Brent Ozar, recorded off the shore of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico — a place Brent calls the End of the World. Instead of answering questions from the audience, Brent responds to questions he…
Database Questions from a Cruise Ship off Long Beach

September 22, 2026 · 18 min

Brent Ozar is setting sail from Long Beach for a week-long retreat to think about the future of the industry, but first he stopped to answer your top-voted questions from pollgab.com/room/brento. Topics range from migrating a 25 TB…
Database Questions Before the Mexico Cruise

September 15, 2026 · 22 min

Brent Ozar is wrapping up his Mastering Index Tuning course and preparing for a Mexico cruise, so he's squeezing in a full Office Hours session from his Las Vegas home office. This episode covers your top-voted questions from…

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Database Questions from the Cool Peaks of Mount Charleston

September 8, 2026 · 16 min

Brent Ozar is spending the weekend at Mount Charleston, enjoying the cool mountain temperatures just outside Las Vegas. In this episode, he works through your top-voted questions submitted at pollgab.com/room/brento, covering topics like…
Database Questions from the Las Vegas Home Office

September 1, 2026 · 19 min

Brent Ozar broadcasts from his Las Vegas home office this week, working through the community's top-voted database questions. Topics range from parameter sniffing and recompile concerns, to deadlock resolution strategies, shrinking…
Database Questions from the Home Bar in Vegas

August 18, 2026 · 34 min

Brent Ozar is recovering from a 16-hour time zone jump back in Las Vegas, and he's set up in the home bar to work through your top-voted questions from pollgab.com/room/brento. This week's session ranges from practical database performance…
Database Questions from Zhengzhou, China

August 13, 2026 · 36 min

Brent Ozar is visiting Zhengzhou, China — Eve's hometown — and finds himself reflecting on AI and the future while watching locals do their morning exercises. He then turns to the top-voted questions submitted by listeners at…
Database Deep Cuts from the Honda Beat Dining Room

August 6, 2026 · 21 min

Brent Ozar is joining you from the dining room, which also happens to house a 1992 Honda Beat. He explains the story behind that unusual arrangement before diving into your top-voted questions sourced from pollgab.com/room/brento. Topics…
Database Questions from the Mojave Desert

July 28, 2026 · 20 min

Brent Ozar takes his show on the road, driving through the scorching desert of Lake Mead National Recreation Area about half an hour outside of Las Vegas. With the temperature well into the triple digits, Brent fields a wide-ranging set of…
Database Questions from Las Vegas

July 21, 2026 · 32 min

Brent Ozar is in Las Vegas, working through viewers' top-voted questions submitted at pollgab.com/room/brento. This episode covers HADR_SYNC_COMMIT waits behind Always On availability group outages, whether to index valid_to or valid_from…

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About the show

Office Hours with Brent Ozar is a weekly Q&A where Microsoft data platform expert Brent Ozar answers your top-voted questions about SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, and database performance tuning. Each episode works through real questions from DBAs and developers around the world: performance, high availability, backups, indexing, and more. Submit and vote at pollgab.com/room/brento, and learn more at BrentOzar.com.