Database Questions from the Home Bar in Vegas

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 topics like indexing and query plan analysis to broader career questions about skill-building when your employer isn't keeping pace with the market. Brent also shares personal stories about his first DBA job loss and weighs in on AI tooling, cloud data warehousing, and independent consultant retirement planning.