Episode 192 - What is new at SQLCon 2026 Barcelona
Guy and Eitan are spiritually obligated to talk about Microsoft's announcements made at SQLCon/FabCon Europe 2026 that took place on Septemb...
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20 of 183 episodesEpisode 191 - High CPU in SQL Server 2025
Guy and Eitan discuss an interesting case study where crazy high CPU was detected after an upgrade to SQL Server 2025. Relevant links: SQL 2...
Episode 190 - SQL Server 2025 gains RDS but loses Web
Guy and Eitan discuss news regarding SQL Server 2025, specifically that it's now publicly available on Amazon RDS, but also that Web Edition...
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 the...
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 Statistics...
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 rep...
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 defragmentin...
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, i...
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 r...
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, whi...
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 auto...
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: Anno...
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...
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 a...
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/Securit...
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. R...
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...
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 fe...
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 A...
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...