Database Questions Before the Mexico Cruise

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 pollgab.com/room/brento, ranging from statistics maintenance on massive tables and columnstore join estimation to TempDB latch waits, automation strategy, Availability Groups, and the realities of consulting on someone else's turf. Brent also fields a question about sp_BlitzWho contributions and weighs in on whether experienced DBAs are holding their own against AI-assisted developers.