SQL Server Radio
SQL Server Radio is a podcast for SQL Server DBAs, database developers, architects, system administrators, and anyone interested in the Microsoft SQL Server platform and the Microsoft data platform. As the data world changes, the hosts also occasionally discuss other platforms and services like Azure and Amazon cloud services, Elastic Search, Hadoop, MongoDB, Machine Learning, and much more.
Episodes
Episode 189 - Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices and More
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. Relevant links: SQL101: Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices - Paul S. Randal SQL Server 2016 Extended S
Episode 188 - Virtualization pitfalls and best practices with SQL Server
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. Relevant links: vmware.com/docs/sql-server-on-vmware-best-practices-guide Hyper-V and SQL Server Best Practices: What We Wish You Knew - SQL Server Consulting - Straight Path Solutions Announ
Episode 187 - Transactional Replication Between Availability Groups
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 :) Relevant links: SSMS 22.5.2 Release Migrate SQL Server
Episode 186 - Automatic Index Compaction and New DB DevOps Tooling
Guy and Eitan discuss several very interesting new features recently announced by Microsoft. Relevant links for more info: 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
Episode 185 - The Liar's Dividend
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". Relevant links for more information: Free SQL Server Performance Monitor App by Erik Darling - Brent Ozar Unlimited® Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring | Darling Da
Episode 184 - The Role of the DBA is Dead (Again)
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. Relevant links: sqlfingers.com: Death of the DBA (Again) (Reddit thread)
Episode 183 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Next Gen
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. Relevant links: Generally Available: Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose | Microsoft Community Hub Th
Episode 182 - Matan Yungman's Show-and-Tell of Rapido
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? Relevant links: Matan Yungman | LinkedIn Matan Yungman (@MatanYungman) / X SQL Server 2025 is Now Generally Available | Microsoft Community Hub Intelligent Query Proces
Episode 181 - The new SSMS is still blue
Guy and Eitan talk about the new preview version of SSMS, application locks, and stupid troubles with TempDB shrinkage. Relevant links: Announcing the Release of SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 3 | Microsoft Community Hub Release Notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 3 Get Started - GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (Preview) | Microsoft Learn Overview of t
Episode 180 - Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions
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. Relevant links: SQL Server 2025 Preview RC1: Now Supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 | Microsoft Community Hub Specify computed columns in a table - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Indexes on
Episode 179 - SQL Server 2025 RC0 announced and weird latch timeouts
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! Relevant links: Higher log rate for business critical service tier in Azure SQL MI | Microsof
Episode 178 - AI is another thing to babysit
Guy and Eitan discuss security-related best practice scripts, and several interesting AI topics. Relevant links: 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
Episode 177 - Five and a Half Enhancements in SQL Server 2025
Guy and Eitan discuss Stephen Planck's blog post "Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice", and add some of their own insights. Relevant links: Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice - SQL Table Talk Configure a flexible automatic failover policy for an availability group - SQL Server Always On | Microsoft Learn Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) in TempDB | Microsoft
Episode 176 - SQL Server 2025 and more
Many announcements and interesting releases came out this past month, so we got a lot to talk about in this episode! Relevant links: What's New in SQL Server 2025 - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn SQL Server 2025 - AI ready enterprise database from ground to cloud | Microsoft Community Hub Announcing Public Preview of DiskANN in SQL Server 2025 | Microsoft Community Hub SQL Server 2025: introduc
Episode 175 - Migrating from on-prem to AWS RDS
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. Relevant links: Importing and exporting SQL Server databases using native backup and restore - Amazon Relational Database Service Learn about Amazon R
Episode 174 - Is SQL Server quality in decline? Or is it just friction?
Guy and Eitan worry about the decline in SQL Server feature quality. But maybe there's something else behind it? Relevant links: Improving Azure SQL Database reliability with accelerated database recovery in tempdb | Microsoft Community Hub What the Decline of Sql Server Quality means for Developers and DBAs SLA for SQL Database | Azure AI will eliminate DBA Jobs faster than you think
Episode 173 - SQL Noir and the fate of Azure Data Studio
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. Relevant links: SQL Noir - A Detective SQL Game How to Write a Recursive CTE in SQL Server | LearnSQL.com Azure Data Studio Retirement - Azure SQL Devs' Corn
Episode 172 - Between SQL Squid Games and SSMS
Guy and Eitan answer an interesting question from the forum regarding the logic of NOT BETWEEN. And also, checking out the SQL Squid Game, discussing SQL Audit, and sharing some tips for SSMS. Relevant links: SQL Squid Game SQL Server Audit (Database Engine) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn microsoft-dbas-club/Maintenance/SQLVersionUpdates Tell us how you did and whether you survived the SQL Squi
Episode 171 - Clueless about SQL Server 2025
Guy and Eitan talk about SQL Server 2025 (well, they try to, at least), and its various interesting upcoming features. Relevant links: Announcing SQL Server 2025 – SQLServerCentral What's New in SQL Server 2025 - Brent Ozar Unlimited® Optimized Locking - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn SQLBits is Coming Back to London in June 2025! - Brent Ozar Unlimited®
Episode 170 - Interesting topics from PASS 2023 sessions
Guy and Eitan go over the most popular sessions released from the SQL PASS archive of 2023, and discuss some other topics. Relevant links: Announcing Microsoft SQL Server 2025: Enterprise AI-ready database from ground to cloud - Microsoft SQL Server Blog Sessions Archive for 2023 - PASS Data Community Summit Resolving and Preventing Deadlocks in SQL Server SSMS v21: Dark Mode, Git, Vertical T
Episode 169 - Resumable Incremental Database Integrity Checks
Guy and Eitan discuss the common challenge of long-running database integrity checks (DBCC CHECKDB) and a solution to resolve it, and why do we need integrity checks at all? Relevant links: PASS Data Community Summit Incremental Integrity Check for Large Databases - Eitan Blumin's blog SQL Server Integrity Check - by Ola Hallengren tigertoolbox/MaintenanceSolution/5_job_Maintenance.sql · micros
Episode 168 - New data types in SQL Server and a question about index fragmentation
Guy and Eitan discuss some interesting news from Microsoft regarding SQL Server, and also about the right way to handle index fragmentation. Relevant links: Resources from Microsoft: Preview release of SDK-style SQL projects in Visual Studio 2022 - Microsoft Community Hub Native JSON support now in preview in Azure SQL Managed Instance - Microsoft Community Hub EAP for Vector Support Refresh
Episode 167 - Let's Troubleshoot SQL AG Synchronization Latency
Fair warning for all listeners! Before starting to listen to this podcast, very strongly recommended: Have the diagram at the bottom of this page ready in front of you, so that it'll be easier for you to follow along: Common Causes and Troubleshooting Solutions for SQL AG Data Synchronization Latency - Microsoft Community Hub (sorry in advance!) Additional relevant links: Index cleanup : Hard
Episode 166 - DR Planning for SQL Server and Loading Large CSV Files
Guy and Eitan discuss the recent CrowdStrike incident and what it would mean for DBAs, and discuss options to load huge CSV files into SQL Server as fast as possible. Relevant links: 101 of Troubleshooting SQL Server on Linux - Microsoft Community Hub bcp utility - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Altering lock escalation for SQL Server tables (mssqltips.com) dbatools docs | Import-DbaCsv A Fast
Episode 165 - News in Azure SQL and Woes of Excel
Guy and Eitan discuss some important and interesting news from Microsoft about SQL Server, Straight Path Solutions publish 30 articles about SQL Server security checks, Guy talks about his experience with Excel, and Eitan is irritated about people still not doing SQL jobs correctly in AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Relevant links: SQLBits Free Videos - YouTube JSON data type (preview) - SQL Serve
Episode 164 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly Transactional Replication
Guy and Eitan continue discussing HADR solutions. But this time focusing on Transactional Replication, its cons and pros and potential use cases. Also, some important announcements from Microsoft about Azure SQL! Relevant links: Data API builder General Availability (microsoft.com) Build REST API with Azure Data API Builder (DAB) (mssqltips.com) Zero ETL, Near-real time replication, Mirroring A
Episode 163 - When and Why to HADR
Guy and Eitan discuss the various High Availability and Disaster Recovery options available to us in Microsoft SQL Server, their main advantages, limitations, and when it's most suitable to use or not to use them. Relevant links for further reading: AlwaysOn Basic Availability Groups / Database Mirroring AlwaysOn "Enterprize" Availability Groups Failover Cluster Instance Log Shipping Transactiona
Episode 162 - Backups and Recovery, RTO, RPO, and RCO
Guy and Eitan talk about some interesting news from Microsoft about SQL Server in Azure. And also discuss the topic of Backups and Recovery, RTO, RPO, RCO, and database Integrity Checks. Relevant links: Microsoft Copilot in Azure extends capabilities to Azure SQL Database (Private Preview) - Microsoft Community Hub Regex in SQL DB (microsoft.com) SQL Server Regular Expressions Library Sample -
Episode 161 - EXCLUSIVE: Announcing the Biggest Innovation for Azure SQL Managed Instances (Codename: Hermes)
Niko Neugebauer and Vladimir Ivanovic are our esteemed guests for today, and they have a HUGE announcement to make about Azure SQL Managed Instances. Extra! Extra! 🗞 Hear all about it on this exclusive scoop here at the SQL Server Radio podcast! Relevant links: Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen GP (microsoft.com) Use Next-gen General Purpose service tier - Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microso
Episode 160 - OPTION RECOMPILE and the magical Turbo button
Guy tries to convince Eitan that OPTION(RECOMPILE) is the ultimate "Turbo" button in SQL Server, and that it's strongly underappreciated. Relevant links for more info: OPTION(RECOMPILE) (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Recompile a Stored Procedure - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Should I use option(recompile)? – SQLServerCentral SQL SERVER - Parameter Sniffing and OPTION (RECOMPIL
Episode 159 - Select * Wastes Money
Guy and Eitan discuss various practices in SQL Server that hurt performance and possibly waste money, negative VarDecimal numbers, renumbering Identity columns, and the new Azure Database Fleet Manager. Relevant links: SQL Server IN Clause With Multiple Literal Values Performance Behaviour | Neeraj Prasad Sharma Could SQL Injection be dangerous even when perfectly safe? | Eitan Blumin The Anatomy
Episode 158 - Reverse Engineering Table Relations based on SQL Plans
Guy and Eitan talk about some great things about SQL Server, and mostly Guy's experience in digging into execution plans and generating synthetic IO workloads. Relevant links: What's new in SQL Server and Azure SQL 2023 Year in Review Multi-Tenancy in the Real World | Eitan Blumin (Data Weekender 6.5)
No episode this month
SQL Server Radio is going on a short break this month. Please tune in next month for when we'll be coming back! In the meantime, check out some of our favorite past episodes: Episode 108 - "I Really Want to Do It" Flags Episode 115 - How can UPDATE STATISTICS cause HADR disconnections? Episode 122 - What you didn't know that you wanted to know about XML Episode 125 - Monitoring SQL Servers for
Episode 157 - Let's Talk Some Hardcore SQL Server
Guy and Eitan go back to their SQL Server roots and go hardcore into execution plan analysis and database corruption. Relevant links: Health Check Scripts/Find_Top_Exec_Plans_to_Optimize.sql SQLServerFast.com Database Corruption Challenge by Steve Steadman A DBA's Guide to the Proper Handling of Corruption Data TLV Summit PASS Data Community Summit
Episode 156 - Back to School with Encryption as a Tool
Guy and Eitan celebrate resuming the school year with some learning of their own. This time, focusing on encryption types in SQL Server. Relevant links: External REST Endpoint Invocation is now GA! Types of Encryption in SQL Server PWDENCRYPT and PWDCOMPARE Dynamic Data Masking And also, don't forget to register for the upcoming Data TLV Summit!
Episode 155 - Kevin Chant
Today we have Kevin Chant as our guest! We talk about Kevin's favorite topics: Microsoft Fabric, Azure DevOps, SQL Server, and more. Relevant links: https://www.kevinrchant.com/2023/06/13/create-your-own-microsoft-fabric-environment/
Episode 154 - Beavers and very loud farts
Guy and Eitan discuss several interesting topics and recent experiences that you'd want to hear about! Relevant links: Trigram Wildcard String Search in SQL Server The Story of DBeaver, PostgreSQL, and the silly data engineer SQL Server Error Log Management High VLF Counts Got You Down? Here's How to Keep Them Low and Performance High
Episode 153 - Erik Darling Is Our Guest For Today
As promised in the previous episode, Guy and Eitan interview an actual human this time! The one and only, the famed Erik Darling is our guest for today! Check out his official website: Erik Darling Data Erik Darling's YouTube Channel We apologize in advance for Guy's occasional audio glitches, as he was having network issues on the day of recording.
Episode 152 - We interview ChatGPT
Guy and Eitan try something new for today's show - we interview ChatGPT as our guest for today, and make it pretend that it's a SQL Server expert! Let's see how it does. Relevant links: Monitor performance by using the Query Store Brent Ozar Unlimited SQLSkills Scary DBA SQL Authority PASS Data Community Summit SQLBits GroupBy Virtual Conference Data Platform Summit
Episode 151 - Tales from the SQL Bits of 2023
Guy and Eitan share their experience from SQLBits 2023 and some of their favorite sessions. Relevant links: Official SQLBits Website SQLBits Content Library SQLBits YouTube Channel SQL Server Debugging with WinDbg – an Introduction Join #TeamHugo and Help Fight Leukemia Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization Azure Functions overview GitHub CoPilot
Episode 150 - Artificially Intelligent Query Processing
Guy and Eitan discuss some new and existing capabilities in the SQL Server engine related to Intelligent Query Processing, and whether our job positions as DBAs are at risk due to the imminent takeover by our robot overlords. Relevant links: Intelligent Query Processing Adaptive Joins (Batch) Intelligent Query Processing Feedback family of features Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization Scalar UDF
Episode 149 - 8 Common DBA Mistakes in SQL Server
Guy and Eitan list several common mistakes done by DBAs in SQL Server. Some relevant links: Architecting Database Dev and Test Environments: Best Practices and Anti-Patterns for SQL Server Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution HADR My Jobs - Open Source Solution by Madeira Columnstore Indexes: Planning and Implementation TSQL Script to Check for Weak Passwords Script to Check for Max DOP Configur
Episode 148 - Rob Sewell and SQLBits 2023
Today we have the pleasure of hosting Rob Sewell, and talking about the upcoming SQLBits event of 2023! Relevant links: SQLBits 2023 agenda, speakers, pricing, and registration - events.sqlbits.com/2023 YouTube playlist of all 195 sessions from SQLBits 2022 - available for free! SQLBits helpers form - beard.media/sqlbits-helpers Rob Sewell's blog - blog.robsewell.com
Episode 147 - Congratulations! It's an RTM!
Guy and Eitan finally celebrate the generally available release of SQL Server 2022! And also discuss other announcements from PASS Data Community Summit, and also various interesting news and features of Azure SQL announced in November 2022. Relevant links: SQL Server 2022 is now generally available Consumption-based PAYG billing model for SQL Server 2022 on-prem PASS Data Community Summit Hug a
Episode 146 - New DMVs and Application Reliability
Guy and Eitan play a game of word associations to spout a bunch of stuff about SQL Server features - mostly reviewing new system objects that replaced old DBCC commands, useful scripts in our toolbox, and talking about Application Reliability Errors. Relevant links: Buffer Pool Extension SQL Server editions comparison dashboard by domains, features, and scale capacities – by Romain Ferraton SQL S
Episode 145 - Itzik Ben-Gan Strikes Back
Today we're pleased to have the one and only Itzik Ben-Gan hosted at our show again! We talk about interesting SQL/T-SQL related topics, the experience of teaching, his new upcoming book edition of T-SQL Fundamentals, and more. Relevant links: Itzik's personal web page at tsql.lucient.com Itzik Ben-Gan's Blog posts at SQLPerformance.com SQL Server Central - Question of the Day Even more fun with
Episode 144 - Getting Locked Outside Without Your Keys
Guy and Eitan discuss a few new features in SQL Server 2022, and Guy tells a story about an interesting use case where a customer accidentally dropped their encryption keys in production. Relevant links: SQL Server 2022 RC0 is now available! Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server 2022 Tutorial: Set up Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server Bidirectional Transactiona
Episode 143 - A mash-up of mistakes all in one place
Today, Guy has a lot of tips to share after reviewing one of those... "problematic" customer environments. Let's just say that he's got his hands full. But it's still fun, and you get to learn as well! Relevant links: Forced Parameterization | Microsoft Docs Forced Parameterization Can Lead to Poor Performance | Microsoft Tech Community Why Multiple Plans for One Query Are Bad | Brent Ozar Releva
Episode 142 - What is Your Favorite Feature in SQL Server 2022?
Guy and Eitan discuss their favorite upcoming new features in SQL Server 2022, and talk about some major upcoming events and summits. Relevant links: SQL Server 2022 public preview is now available on Linux Introducing the SQL Server 2022 blog series by Bob Ward Contained Availability Groups in SQL Server 2022 | Eitan Blumin What is a contained availability group? | Microsoft Docs Erik Darling Bl
Episode 141 - Howda Hadr Hader Hadader
Guy and Eitan talk about a lot of exciting announcements and announcements about a lot of excitements! Does this even make sense? I don't know! Listen to the show to find out! Relevant links: How to HADR Your SQL Jobs Contained AlwaysOn Availability Groups Overview Pedro Lopes's Slides Deck for SQL Bits 2022 How to Identify and Fix TempDB Contention The Best Solution for SQL Server Partitioning S
Episode 140 - Migration Challenges
Guy and Eitan discuss interesting challenges and news about migrations in SQL Server. Also, we talk about performance considerations of partitioning in SQL Server, a blog post series about how to tune performance, and new scripts in our Madeira Toolbox on GitHub. Relevant links: Data-tier Applications (DACPAC and BACPAC) About: Snapshot Replication Generally available: Azure Virtual Machines incr
Episode 139 - What's New in 2022
Guy and Eitan discuss upcoming events and conferences in 2022, and also about new features in SQL Server 2022, and more. Relevant links: Conferences: SQL Server & Azure SQL Conference Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 DataGrillen PASS Data Community Summit 2022 (registration is open!) Get Ready for SQL Server 2022 Get Azure recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension Madeira Toolbox Roundu
Episode 138 - EverSQL
In today's show, Guy and Eitan host the co-founders of EverSQL, Oded Valin and Tomer Shay. We talk about their automated SQL tuning solution and SQL tuning best practices in general. eversql.com - Official Website Software Vendor Mistakes - Erik Darling Data
Episode 137 - It's That Time of the Month
It's that time again! The time to talk about SQL Server! We got a bunch of different topics to talk about on this show. Relevant links: Cardinality Estimation: Combining Density Statistics | Paul White SQL Server CE: Multiple single-column statistics connected by AND SQL Server CE: Multiple single-column statistics connected by OR Detect Low PAGE Compression Success Rates in all Databases | Eitan
Episode 136 - On the First Day of Christmas I got a TSQL Script
Guy and Eitan discuss some interesting announcements and focus on the topic of Security in SQL Server. Relevant links: Announcing new features for the SQL IaaS Agent Extension! - Microsoft Tech Community Troubleshooting SQL Server made easy via Notebooks – seeking your feedback - Microsoft Tech Community Veeam security breach: Backup "Removal" Solutions - From Conti Ransomware With Love sp_helpro
Episode 135 - Announcing SQL Server 2022
Guy and Eitan talk about the interesting new features announced in SQL Server 2022, a new sp_whoisactive version, and a bunch of Microsoft blog posts on Tech Community. Relevant links: SQL Server 2022: Announcing SQL Server 2022 preview: Azure-enabled with continued performance and security innovation Introducing SQL Server 2022 | Bob Ward Announcing the SQL Server 2022 Early Adoption Program SQ
Episode 134 - Availability Sets in Azure and SQL Server
Guy and Eitan talk about some important news, about Availability Sets in Azure, and several useful T-SQL scripts in our Toolbox. Relevant links: Azure Feedback is back! Troubleshooting SQL Server made easy via Notebooks – seeking your feedback Open sourcing the .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server Replication enhancements in the SQL Server 2019 CU13 release This episode was recorded on Oct
Episode 133 - Good news, everyone!
Guy and Eitan talk about various topics related to SQL Server, including upcoming virtual events, interesting new scripts from our toolbox, and more! Relevant links: SQL Server 2016 SP3: Last Service Pack for SQL Server SQL Server Release Dates and Product Lifecycle PASS Data Community Summit - November 8-12, 2021 Development Lifecycle Basics for DBAs Group By Conference 2021 SSDT Methodol
Episode 132 - Blythe Morrow
Are you a data professional who needs to be able to convince people that you're right? Blythe Morrow is here to help! Blythe Morrow is our special guest for today, teaching us tech folks how to talk and convince people about topics in regards to Data Platform technologies. Blythe Morrow on LinkedIn Blythe Morrow is a Pre-Con speaker at PASS Data Community Summit Blythe Morrow in: Meet the Pre-Con
Episode 131 - The First Madeira Toolbox Round-Up
Guy and Eitan discuss change automation tricks for databases, do a round-up of the newest scripts in the Madeira Toolbox, and more. Relevant links: Database Change Automation: DbaTools sp_generate_merge by Daniel Nolan (readyroll) Add support for "Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation" option in SqlPackage / SSDT (Azure Feedback) (New feedback item at Microsoft Q&A) Madeira
Episode 130 - We just talk about stuff
Guy and Eitan shoot the breeze about several interesting topics that you wouldn't want to miss out on! Relevant links: SQL Server 2016 going out of mainstream support Intelligent Query Processing Capabilities in SQL Server Group by conference recordings on YouTube Dynamic search queries in T-SQL - THE NINJA WAY - by Eitan Blumin SQL Data Partners Episode 227: SSDT Methodologies for DB DevOps Data
Episode 129 - 10 Comments Every DBA Wants to Say
Today we go over a list written by Kevin Chant about a year ago, and add some of our own insights. Relevant links: Ten comments I think every SQL Server DBA wants to say | Kevin Chant Eitan's T-SQL Tuesday blog posts about automation and productivity: T-SQL Tuesday #123 – Life hacks to make your day easier T-SQL Tuesday #127 – Tips and Tricks to Automate Your Life T-SQL Tuesday #130 – Eitan's La
Episode 128 - Azure and SQL with Anna and Bob
We have two very special guests in today's show: the AzureSQL rockstars Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward! Some relevant links: Azure SQL Fundamentals | Microsoft Learn Azure SQL for beginners | YouTube Playlist Digital event: Transform Your Applications with Azure SQL http://aka.ms/newsupdate https://aka.ms/sqlworkshops DataMinutes | Data Grillen SQL Saturday official site
Episode 127 - The Red-Gate-took-over-and-now-we-get-free-stuff Summit
Guy and Eitan discuss lots of interesting recent news, and also about various technical topics in SQL Server. Relevant links: News about PASS and SQL Saturday: What's next for PASS Summit this fall? Ideas forum The SQL Saturday Foundation Board of Directors The new Azure Data Community webpage from Microsoft PASS Summit 2020 session recordings PASS Pro Educational Series at Red Gate Un
Episode 126 - Leading a Zeitgeist in the SQL Server Community
Check out the episode where we start movements to change the way everyone writes T-SQL code, and/or deliver data platform meetups! And we also talk about a bunch of other stuff as well. Relevant Links: Join the SQL Server Community Slack and our new channel #SQLServerRadio ! Ask Us Anything: Database Performance Tuning and Optimization | Data Platform Meetup Israel Redgate Software takes over fro
Episode 125 - Monitoring SQL Servers for a managed DBA service
We have a special topic for today, where we talk about our own managed DBA service, and how we ended up choosing SentryOne SQL Sentry as our go-to monitoring platform for SQL Servers. Relevant links with more details: DBSmart - The Managed DBA Service from Madeira Data Solutions SentryOne SQL Sentry clr_http_request - CLR assembly to send HTTP web requests from within SQL Server Case study - UPDA
Episode 124 - The Vanguards of Data
Guy and Eitan host a very special guest and speak about various SQL Server and Data Platform topics, and recent events. Relevant links: for more details Cassandra - Use cases: when to use and when not to use Community call for creating the fastest number series generator | Itzik Ben Gan SQL Server Feature Request: Adding Multi-column IN clause support by SQL Server mysqlbinlog — Utility for Proce
Episode 123 - Beware of the Parallel Plan
Guy and Eitan take a break from talking about the PASS virtual summit, and celebrate with some interesting content. Relevant links: Notes on the PASS Virtual Summit by Andy Warren: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Conclusions Satirical DBA Twitter accounts: @TrumpDBA @Bernie_DBA @biden_dba Concatenating Strings in SQL Server | Guy Glantser Making a more reliable and flexible sp_MSf
Episode 122 - What you didn't know that you wanted to know about XML
Our guest for today is Yitzhak Khabinsky, a subject-matter expert on XML in SQL Server (among other impressive titles). We deep dive into the topic of XML, its history, its purpose and limitations within SQL Server, and fascinating capabilities that you never knew about... And also, how does JSON fit in this whole story? Yitzhak Khabinsky | LinkedIn Azure Feedback item to update XML API engine in
Episode 121 - to PASS or not to PASS
Guy and Eitan discuss PASS Virtual Summit 2020, what we should expect, whether it's worth the price tag or not, and discuss the future of the PASS organization. Relevant links: https://www.pass.org/summit/2020/ Imagine All the People | Guy Glantser SELECT TOP (3) Pre-Conference Sessions | Guy Glantser Why I'm Not Speaking at PASS Summit and You Shouldn't Either | Joey D'Antoni https://sqlsaturda
Episode 120 - Operator Level Statistics
Guy and Eitan talk about recent and upcoming virtual events, and discuss the newly available runtime statistics at the operator-level in actual execution plans. Relevant links: Data Platform Virtual Summit 2020 Development Lifecycle Basics for DBAs - PASS Application Development Virtual Group Data Weekender #TheSQL Oct 17th SQL Workshops (Microsoft repository in GitHub) GroupBy.org Starting SQL:
Episode 119 - Overriding Reporting Services Authentication
Guy and Eitan talk about Virtual Summits and free online courses, how to override SSRS authentication, and learn how to pronounce Eitan's name. Also, we're terribly sorry in advance for the windy interferences! Links: PASS Virtual Summit Modernizing Your Data Platform by Guy Glantser Azure SQL Bootcamp with Bob Ward & Anna Hoffman Free Courses by Kendra Little How to start with Azure Data Explore
Episode 118 - Going reverse in a one way street
Guy and Eitan talk about several workarounds that boil down to using a solution for something other than its intended purpose. Relevant links: Moving A Database to New Storage With No Downtime | Bob Pusateri Planning a Migration from Azure SQL DB to Azure Managed Instance | Eitan Blumin The Internals of the External SqlPackage Tool - Inside a bacpac File | Ronen Ariely (Data Platform Meetup Israe
Episode 117 - May the Free Events be ever in your favor
Today we talk about all the exciting free events that we were involved with during May, with even more to come, and also some other interesting news! Check them out: The Performance Tuning Magic Show by Guy Glantser (PASS Application Development) Accelerated Database Recovery by Guy Glantser (PASS Global Hebrew Virtual Chapter) SQL Server Setup Best Practices by Guy Glantser (GroupBy.org) Data We
Episode 116 - FREEApril and a promising May
Today's show notes are quite a handful! Red Gate report about the State of Database DevOps Eitan's session about Development Lifecycle Basics for DBAs Free online conferences and events: Data Community Weekender Europe Data Platform Discovery Day GroupBy DataPlatformGeeks Virtual Symposium PASS Recordings Listing Red-Gate Streamed SentryOne Webinars T-SQL Tuesday LIVE Data Platform Meetup Is
Episode 115 - How can UPDATE STATISTICS cause HADR disconnections?
Eitan does his worst Donald Trump impression, and talks SQL Server stuff with Guy Glantser: Ola Hallengren's maintenance solution SQL Server Index Maintenance – You're Doing It Wrong | Sean Gallardy Because Your Index Maintenance Script Is Measuring The Wrong Thing | Erik Darling How can UPDATE STATISTICS cause HADR disconnections? Eitan's File Size Maintenance Solution MCSA, MCSD, MCSE certifica
Episode 114 - Lots of catching up to do
Guy Glantser is co-hosting with Eitan Blumin for the first time, and we have a lot of topics to cover and catching up to do. PASS and SQLBits Conferences Storage Best Practices for SQL on IaaS in Azure SQL VM RP (Resource Provider) Guy's hopes for SQL Server setup options SQL Server 2019 features And more
SQL Server Radio Important Announcement
After a very long break, today we come to you with a very special show, with a very special announcement to make. You do not want to miss this one!
Things You Shouldn't Do with SQL Server
Guy is back from New Zealand. We talk a little bit about his trip, about things that people shouldn't be doing with SQL Server, and more.
What You Should Do Before You Actually Start Working
Guy is in New Zealand, so Eitan Blumin comes to fill in. We talk about: CI/CD with SSDT What is a Canary Query The best performance tuning feature, ROI wise Hierarchical partitioning Azure storage for SQL Server
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Ghost Stories For The End Of The World
Hoporenkv Native American Podcast
