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.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 169
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
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…
Episode 178 - AI is another thing to babysit
Guy and Eitan discuss security-related best practice scripts, and several interesting AI topics.
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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.
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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!
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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 S…
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?
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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 an…
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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 yo…
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.
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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…
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 abo…
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 no…
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.
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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 exclusi…
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.
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