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 159 - Select * Wastes Money
Guy 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 Manag…
Episode 158 - Reverse Engineering Table Relations based on SQL Plans
Guy and Eitan talk about some great things about SQL Server, and mostly Guy’s experience in digging into execution plans and generating synthetic IO workloads.
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Episode 157 - Let's Talk Some Hardcore SQL Server
Guy and Eitan go back to their SQL Server roots and go hardcore into execution plan analysis and database corruption.
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Episode 156 - Back to School with Encryption as a Tool
Guy and Eitan celebrate resuming the school year with some learning of their own. This time, focusing on encryption types in SQL Server.
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Episode 155 - Kevin Chant
Today we have Kevin Chant as our guest!
We talk about Kevin’s favorite topics: Microsoft Fabric, Azure DevOps, SQL Server, and more.
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Episode 154 - Beavers and very loud farts
Guy and Eitan discuss several interesting topics and recent experiences that you'd want to hear about!
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Episode 153 - Erik Darling Is Our Guest For Today
As promised in the previous episode, Guy and Eitan interview an actual human this time!
The one and only, the famed Erik Darling is our guest for today!
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Episode 152 - We interview ChatGPT
Guy and Eitan try something new for today's show - we interview ChatGPT as our guest for today, and make it pretend that it's a SQL Server expert!
Let's see how it does.
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Episode 151 - Tales from the SQL Bits of 2023
Guy and Eitan share their experience from SQLBits 2023 and some of their favorite sessions.
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Episode 150 - Artificially Intelligent Query Processing
Guy and Eitan discuss some new and existing capabilities in the SQL Server engine related to Intelligent Query Processing, and whether our job positions as DBAs are at risk due to the imminent takeov…
Episode 149 - 8 Common DBA Mistakes in SQL Server
Guy and Eitan list several common mistakes done by DBAs in SQL Server.
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Episode 148 - Rob Sewell and SQLBits 2023
Today we have the pleasure of hosting Rob Sewell, and talking about the upcoming SQLBits event of 2023!
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Episode 147 - Congratulations! It's an RTM!
Guy and Eitan finally celebrate the generally available release of SQL Server 2022! And also discuss other announcements from PASS Data Community Summit, and also various interesting news and feature…
Episode 146 - New DMVs and Application Reliability
Guy and Eitan play a game of word associations to spout a bunch of stuff about SQL Server features - mostly reviewing new system objects that replaced old DBCC commands, useful scripts in our toolbox…
Episode 145 - Itzik Ben-Gan Strikes Back
Today we're pleased to have the one and only Itzik Ben-Gan hosted at our show again!
We talk about interesting SQL/T-SQL related topics, the experience of teaching, his new upcoming book edition of T…
Episode 144 - Getting Locked Outside Without Your Keys
Guy and Eitan discuss a few new features in SQL Server 2022, and Guy tells a story about an interesting use case where a customer accidentally dropped their encryption keys in production.
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Episode 143 - A mash-up of mistakes all in one place
Today, Guy has a lot of tips to share after reviewing one of those... "problematic" customer environments. Let's just say that he's got his hands full. But it's still fun, and you get to learn as wel…
Episode 142 - What is Your Favorite Feature in SQL Server 2022?
Guy and Eitan discuss their favorite upcoming new features in SQL Server 2022, and talk about some major upcoming events and summits.
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Episode 141 - Howda Hadr Hader Hadader
Guy and Eitan talk about a lot of exciting announcements and announcements about a lot of excitements! Does this even make sense? I don't know! Listen to the show to find out!
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Episode 140 - Migration Challenges
Also, we talk about performance considerations of partitioning in SQL Server, a blog post series about how to tun…