Episode 190 - SQL Server 2025 gains RDS but loses Web
SQL Server Radio
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. Relevant links:
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Episode 189 - Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices and More
SQL Server Radio
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:
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Episode 188 - Virtualization pitfalls and best practices with SQL Server
SQL Server Radio
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:
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Episode 187 - Transactional Replication Between Availability Groups
SQL Server Radio
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: (April 1st joke)
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Episode 186 - Automatic Index Compaction and New DB DevOps Tooling
SQL Server Radio
Guy and Eitan discuss several very interesting new features recently announced by Microsoft. Relevant links for more info:
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Episode 185 - The Liar's Dividend
SQL Server Radio
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:
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Episode 184 - The Role of the DBA is Dead (Again)
SQL Server Radio
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: ()
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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:
info_outlineMost of us will have to deliver some kind of a presentation in our professional lives, whether it's inside the organization or at a conference.
Today, we talk to Boris Hristov (blog | twitter) about this subject.
You might remember Boris from show 26 where we talked to him about Policy Based Management and Distributed Replay, but today he's in a completely different phase.
Boris started a company called 356labs that is targeted at helping speakers deliver better presentations.
During our chat, we cover:
- Why it's important to start presenting, and how to start doing it
- How to correctly deliver a message during a presentation
- What should you ask yourself before delivering a presentation
- Why are images better at delivering a message
- How to start a company and get clients
- Many practical tips for presenting
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