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




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Summary: 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.<br> Links<br> <br> Sponsor: Audible.com - Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial!<br> Notable Quotes<br> Season 3 opened with John Lee Dumas aka JLD (01:30)<br> Data Soup Summit (02:00)<br> Introducting Brent Ozar (05:00)<br> "Get out there!" - Brent Ozar (08:30)<br> Data work pays better. (13:45)<br> Brent started in hotel management (15:00)<br> Data is the new oil... but we should avoid spills. (16:15)<br> "The job is getting harder, not easier." (18:30)<br> The "Aha" moment and ER analogy. (21:30)<br> Brent's quote voice... (22:00)<br> Brent's "Bad News Doctor" voice (22:45)<br> Andy throws NoLock under the bus. Brent helps. (23:12)<br> On shrinking databases... (24:30)<br> NoSQL (26:30)<br> Name-drop: Buck Woody (28:30)<br> Name-drop: Scott Hanselman (29:00)<br> Ballerina Princess (32:20)<br> Brent likes to travel. (34:45)<br> "No one comes to me for a good time..." (36:20)<br> The data is the choke-point. Again. (38:30)<br> On Google Glass (39:45)<br> On Past Brent... (41:00)<br> Name-drop: Brian Kelley (41:30)<br> "We're published. It's a license to spell." (42:10)<br> Book Reference: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (43:45)<br> Social Radar (44:45)<br> Regarding iTunes... (45:00)<br> Brent is into restaurants. (46:45)<br> Andy's Brent Story... (48:15)<br> Brent is here to help. (50:00)<br> On paying it forward... (51:30)<br> "This looks like an engineer built it" is not a compliment. (52:30)<br> Learn more about Brent at BrentOzar.com (53:00)<br> A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine (54:30)<br> Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage (@donttrythis)(55:30)<br> Titan by Ron Chernow (58:40)<br> Regarding Midgely... (1:00:00)<br> Brent's Epic Life Quest (1:02:00)<br> WordPress Plugins I Use to Sell Training Classes (1:02:30)<br> Frank's New Year starts 1 Nov. (1:03:15)<br> Sometimes life resembles a country music song... (1:04:00)<br> Frank wrote a book about Silverlight. (1:05:15)<br> One day there will be a country song about a self-driving pickup leaving... (1:06:10)<br> <br>  <br> Transcript (Experimental)<br> The following transcript was automatically generated with AI.<br> <br> <br> <br> Hello and Welcome to data driven the podcast where we<br> explore the emerging field of data science.<br> We bring the best minds in data software engineering machine<br> learning and artificial intelligence now hear your hosts Frank Lavigna<br> and Andy Leonard.<br> Hello and welcome back to data driven the podcasts are<br> we explore the emerging field.<br> Some data science machine learning and artificial intelligence.<br> If you'd like to think of data as the new<br> oil and you can consider us Car Talk because we<br> focus on where the rubber meets Virtual Road and with<br> me as ever on this epic road trip down the<br> information superhighway.<br> Can I fill us up with more data cliches Andy<br> is emulated?<br> How you doing? I'm doing great Frank?<br> How are you? I'm doing alright?<br> I'm doing alright so you had a birthday last week?<br> Thank you yes? Yes, I made another trip around the<br> sun.<br> Yeah, yeah, you know statistics show that the more birthdays.<br> You have the longer you live that you know,<br> I wonder. Though if it's one of those false.<br> Corollary's just just not sure is that false positive.<br> I don't know. I think it's a useless correlation.<br> I was looking for how describing the same thing just<br> in different terms.<br> That's true. We've sound smart when we throw these words<br> around.<br> I need all the help I can get sound in<br> smaller.<br>