Episode 183 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Next Gen
SQL Server Radio
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:
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Episode 182 - Matan Yungman's Show-and-Tell of Rapido
SQL Server Radio
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:
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Episode 181 - The new SSMS is still blue
SQL Server Radio
Guy and Eitan talk about the new preview version of SSMS, application locks, and stupid troubles with TempDB shrinkage. Relevant links:
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Episode 180 - Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions
SQL Server Radio
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:
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Episode 179 - SQL Server 2025 RC0 announced and weird latch timeouts
SQL Server Radio
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 ! Thank you! Relevant links:
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Episode 178 - AI is another thing to babysit
SQL Server Radio
Guy and Eitan discuss security-related best practice scripts, and several interesting AI topics. Relevant links:
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Episode 177 - Five and a Half Enhancements in SQL Server 2025
SQL Server Radio
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:
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Episode 176 - SQL Server 2025 and more
SQL Server Radio
Many announcements and interesting releases came out this past month, so we got a lot to talk about in this episode! Relevant links:
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Episode 175 - Migrating from on-prem to AWS RDS
SQL Server Radio
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:
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Episode 174 - Is SQL Server quality in decline? Or is it just friction?
SQL Server Radio
Guy and Eitan worry about the decline in SQL Server feature quality. But maybe there's something else behind it? Relevant links:
info_outlineGuy 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 of Vardecimals | Mark S. Rasmussen
- Utility Scripts/ReNumber_Identity_Column.sql
- Introducing Azure Database Fleet Manager
Also, Happy New Year! 🎉🎈🥂