Brent Ozar on NoLock, Stoicism, and Playing Country Music Backwards (S3E2)

In this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy catch up with Brent Ozar and have a laugh or two at Silverlight’s expense, NoLock, and playing country music backwards. Links Sponsor: Audible.com – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes Season 3 opened with John Lee Dumas aka JLD ([01:30]) Data Soup Summit ([02:00]) Introducting Brent Ozar ([05:00]) “Get out there!” – Brent Ozar ([08:30]) Data work pays better. ([13:45]) Brent started in hotel management ([15:00]) Data is the new oil… but we should avoid spills. ([16:15]) “The job is getting harder, not easier.” ([18:30]) The “Aha” moment and ER analogy. ([21:30]) Brent’s quote voice… ([22:00]) Brent’s “Bad News Doctor” voice ([22:45]) Andy throws NoLock under the bus. Brent helps. ([23:12]) On shrinking databases… ([24:30]) NoSQL ([26:30]) Name-drop: Buck Woody ([28:30]) Name-drop: Scott Hanselman ([29:00]) Ballerina Princess ([32:20]) Brent likes to travel. ([34:45]) “No one comes to me for a good time…” ([36:20]) The data is the choke-point. Again. ([38:30]) On Google Glass ([39:45]) On Past Brent… ([41:00]) Name-drop: Brian Kelley ([41:30]) “We’re published. It’s a license to spell.” ([42:10]) Book Reference: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ([43:45]) Social Radar ([44:45]) Regarding iTunes… ([45:00]) Brent is into restaurants. ([46:45]) Andy’s Brent Story… ([48:15]) Brent is here to help. ([50:00]) On paying it forward… ([51:30]) “This looks like an engineer built it” is not a compliment. ([52:30]) Learn more about Brent at

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