--- title: [Video] Office Hours Overlooking Rome | daily.dev description: Brent Ozar hosts an Office Hours Q&A session from Rome, covering SQL Server and Azure SQL topics including sharding in Azure SQL DB, active/active database... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/video-office-hours-overlooking-rome-d3m1qgpmf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: [Video] Office Hours Overlooking Rome | daily.dev og:description: Brent Ozar hosts an Office Hours Q&A session from Rome, covering SQL Server and Azure SQL topics including sharding in Azure SQL DB, active/active database... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/video-office-hours-overlooking-rome-d3m1qgpmf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/D3m1qGpMF.png og:image:alt: [Video] Office Hours Overlooking Rome og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # [Video] Office Hours Overlooking Rome **[Brent Ozar](https://daily.dev/sources/brentozar)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Brent Ozar hosts an Office Hours Q&A session from Rome, covering SQL Server and Azure SQL topics including sharding in Azure SQL DB, active/active database configurations across Azure regions, whether Resource Governor causes parameter sniffing issues, how snapshot backups work with log backups, and how frequently to update statistics when maintenance windows are constrained. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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