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.

Episode 190 - SQL Server 2025 gains RDS but loses Web 08/10/2026

Episode 189 - Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices and More 07/06/2026

Episode 188 - Virtualization pitfalls and best practices with SQL Server 06/08/2026

Episode 187 - Transactional Replication Between Availability Groups 05/13/2026

Episode 186 - Automatic Index Compaction and New DB DevOps Tooling 04/13/2026

Episode 185 - The Liar's Dividend 03/09/2026

Episode 184 - The Role of the DBA is Dead (Again) 02/09/2026

Episode 183 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Next Gen 01/12/2026

Episode 182 - Matan Yungman's Show-and-Tell of Rapido 12/08/2025

Episode 181 - The new SSMS is still blue 11/10/2025

Episode 180 - Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions 10/13/2025

Episode 179 - SQL Server 2025 RC0 announced and weird latch timeouts 09/08/2025

Episode 178 - AI is another thing to babysit 08/11/2025

Episode 177 - Five and a Half Enhancements in SQL Server 2025 07/07/2025

Episode 176 - SQL Server 2025 and more 06/09/2025

Episode 175 - Migrating from on-prem to AWS RDS 05/12/2025

Episode 174 - Is SQL Server quality in decline? Or is it just friction? 04/14/2025

Episode 173 - SQL Noir and the fate of Azure Data Studio 03/10/2025

Episode 172 - Between SQL Squid Games and SSMS 02/10/2025

Episode 171 - Clueless about SQL Server 2025 01/13/2025

Episode 170 - Interesting topics from PASS 2023 sessions 12/09/2024

Episode 169 - Resumable Incremental Database Integrity Checks 11/11/2024

Episode 168 - New data types in SQL Server and a question about index fragmentation 10/14/2024

Episode 167 - Let's Troubleshoot SQL AG Synchronization Latency 09/09/2024

Episode 166 - DR Planning for SQL Server and Loading Large CSV Files 08/12/2024

Episode 165 - News in Azure SQL and Woes of Excel 07/08/2024

Episode 164 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly Transactional Replication 06/10/2024

Episode 163 - When and Why to HADR 05/13/2024

Episode 162 - Backups and Recovery, RTO, RPO, and RCO 04/08/2024

Episode 161 - EXCLUSIVE: Announcing the Biggest Innovation for Azure SQL Managed Instances (Codename: Hermes) 03/21/2024