SQL Server Radio
SQL Server Radio is a Podcast for SQL Server DBAs, database developers, architects, system administrators, and anyone else who is interested in the Microsoft SQL Server platform and the Microsoft data platform in general. As the data world changes, we also occasionally talk about other platforms and services like Azure and Amazon cloud services, Elastic Search, Hadoop, MongoDB, Machine Learning, and much more.
Episodes
Guy and Eitan are spiritually obligated to talk about Microsoft's announcements made at SQLCon/FabCon Europe 2026 that took place on September.
UGH... FINE!
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Guy and Eitan discuss an interesting case study where crazy high CPU was detected after an upgrade to SQL Server 2025.
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Guy and Eitan discuss news regarding SQL Server 2025, specifically that it's now publicly available on Amazon RDS, but also that Web Edition is now gone.
Also, Guy shares an interesting use case with troubleshooting disk IO latency issues.
And finally, Guy and Eitan discuss the differences between SQL Server and PostgreSQL, and why would anyone still be paying for SQL Server.
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Guy and Eitan go over Paul Randal's article of "Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices" (published in last March), and add their own input.
We also talk about considerations of upgrading SQL Server to 2025, and we also learn something new about Temp Table Caching.
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Guy talks about an interesting incident involving performance problems in a virtual environment.
And also, we talk about the SSMS StatisticsParser extension and the question of SSMS extensions in general.
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Guy and Eitan discuss a few new things in the latest SSMS update, and Eitan tells about a very peculiar use case involving transactional replication and AlwaysOn Availability Groups, and Guy talks about a use case involving deletion triggers.
Important note: The part about SQL Server 2025 CU4 adding automatic update was an April 1st joke :)
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Guy and Eitan discuss several very interesting new features recently announced by Microsoft.
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- Stop defragmenting and start living: introducing auto index compaction | Microsoft Community Hub
- Automatic Index Compaction - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn
- Database DevOps (preview) in SSMS 22.4.1 | Microsoft Community Hub
- Manage SQL database schemas in VS Code: Publish dialog and item templates - Azure SQL...
Guy and Eitan talk about Erik Darling's new monitoring app, which reminds us of similar tools we had experience with long ago.
And, again, it's time to talk about AI. Specifically, a side-effect of it called "The Liar's Dividend".
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Looks like it's that time of the year again, to face the impending death of the DBA role!
Or... Is it?
Guy and Eitan discuss the topic and raise several interesting points you should listen to.
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In this year's first episode of the new year, Guy and Eitan discuss the new Next-gen General Purpose tier of Azure SQL Managed Instance, which is now GA. They also discuss a few interesting customer stories, how they were resolved, and how they're not actually SQL Server's fault.
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Matan Yungman is our special host for today, who came especially to talk about his special project called "Rapido", which is capable of automatically tuning SQL queries at scale.
Perhaps there is some inspiration in it for us?
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Guy and Eitan talk about the new preview version of SSMS, application locks, and stupid troubles with TempDB shrinkage.
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We let a dice roll decide today's topic, and the winner ended up being: Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions. We give our thoughts about it, best practices, pit falls, and tips.
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Guy and Eitan discuss several interesting announcements and updates from Microsoft related to SQL Server and VS Code. And also Eitan talks about a weird issue he encountered involving page latch time-outs during DBCC CHECK command.
Please fill out the SQL Server on Linux adoption survey here! Thank you!
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Guy and Eitan discuss security-related best practice scripts, and several interesting AI topics.
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- microsoft-dbas-club/Security and Compliance/Check_Passwords_SQL_Server_Generated.sql
- microsoft-dbas-club/Security and Compliance/Best Practice Checks/Invalid_owner_for_system_schema_role_or_database.sql
- microsoft-dbas-club/Security and Compliance/Windows Group Members.sql
- Microsoft Introduced AI Integrations for...
Guy and Eitan discuss Stephen Planck's blog post "Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice", and add some of their own insights.
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Many announcements and interesting releases came out this past month, so we got a lot to talk about in this episode!
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Guy talks about a recent migration project he was working on to move an on-prem SQL Server to AWS RDS.
Eitan talks about a new AI-related feature in Azure SQL Databases.
And we also discuss the new SNAPSHOT backup T-SQL command in SQL Server 2022.
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Guy and Eitan worry about the decline in SQL Server feature quality. But maybe there's something else behind it?
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Guy and Eitan discuss a few interesting topics. Including a fun new game called "SQL Noir", how to implement statistical clustering model in SQL, about surrogate and natural keys, and the recently announced deprecation of Azure Data Studio.
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