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Episode 188 - Virtualization pitfalls and best practices with SQL Server
Jun 8, 2026
29m 33s
Episode 187 - Transactional Replication Between Availability Groups
May 13, 2026
30m 06s
Episode 186 - Automatic Index Compaction and New DB DevOps Tooling
Apr 13, 2026
31m 16s
Episode 185 - The Liar's Dividend
Mar 9, 2026
35m 30s
Episode 184 - The Role of the DBA is Dead (Again)
Feb 9, 2026
35m 36s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/8/26 | Episode 188 - Virtualization pitfalls and best practices with SQL Server✨ | virtualizationSQL Server+3 | — | vmware.comSQL Server Consulting - Straight Path Solutions+2 | — | virtualization pitfallsSQL Server+3 | — | 29m 33s | |
| 5/13/26 | Episode 187 - Transactional Replication Between Availability Groups✨ | transactional replicationAlwaysOn Availability Groups+3 | — | SSMS 22.5.2SQL Server 2025 CU4+3 | — | transactional replicationAlwaysOn Availability Groups+3 | — | 30m 06s | |
| 4/13/26 | Episode 186 - Automatic Index Compaction and New DB DevOps Tooling✨ | Automatic Index CompactionDatabase DevOps+3 | — | SSMS 22.4.1Visual Studio Code+5 | — | index compactiondatabase DevOps+3 | — | 31m 16s | |
| 3/9/26 | Episode 185 - The Liar's Dividend✨ | AImonitoring tools+3 | — | Brent Ozar UnlimitedMicrosoft+1 | — | SQL Servermonitoring app+3 | — | 35m 30s | |
| 2/9/26 | Episode 184 - The Role of the DBA is Dead (Again)✨ | DBA roletechnology+3 | — | sqlfingers.comReddit+1 | — | DBAdatabase+3 | — | 35m 36s | |
| 1/12/26 | Episode 183 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Next Gen✨ | Azure SQL Managed InstanceNext-gen General Purpose tier+3 | — | Azure SQL Managed InstanceBitmap Index+3 | — | Azure SQL Managed InstanceNext-gen+5 | — | 36m 03s | |
| 12/8/25 | Episode 182 - Matan Yungman's Show-and-Tell of Rapido✨ | SQL tuningtechnology+3 | Matan Yungman | RapidoMicrosoft+3 | — | SQL queriesautomated tuning+5 | — | 40m 40s | |
| 11/10/25 | Episode 181 - The new SSMS is still blue✨ | SQL Server Management Studioapplication locks+3 | — | SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 3SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 4+4 | — | SSMSSQL Server+5 | — | 33m 23s | |
| 10/13/25 | Episode 180 - Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions✨ | Computed ColumnsPERSISTED Expressions+3 | — | SQL Server 2025 Preview RC1Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10+2 | — | Computed ColumnsPERSISTED+4 | — | 37m 55s | |
| 9/8/25 | Episode 179 - SQL Server 2025 RC0 announced and weird latch timeouts✨ | SQL Server 2025Microsoft announcements+4 | — | SQL Server 2025VS Code+2 | — | SQL Server 2025VS Code+5 | — | 34m 40s | |
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| 8/11/25 | Episode 178 - AI is another thing to babysit✨ | AIsecurity best practices+3 | — | MicrosoftBrent Ozar Unlimited®+1 | — | AI integrationsSQL Server+3 | — | 36m 50s | |
| 7/7/25 | Episode 177 - Five and a Half Enhancements in SQL Server 2025✨ | SQL Server 2025Database enhancements+4 | — | Microsoft LearnSQL Table Talk+1 | — | SQL Server 2025DBA enhancements+6 | — | 29m 18s | |
| 6/9/25 | 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! Relevant links: What's New in SQL Server 2025 - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn SQL Server 2025 - AI ready enterprise database from ground to cloud | Microsoft Community Hub Announcing Public Preview of DiskANN in SQL Server 2025 | Microsoft Community Hub SQL Server 2025: introducing optimized Halloween protection | Microsoft Community Hub SQL Server 2025: introducing tempdb space resource governance | Microsoft Community Hub Unlocking the Power of Regex in SQL Server - Azure SQL Devs' Corner Announcing the General Availability (GA) of JSON data type and JSON aggregates | Microsoft Community Hub Announcing the Public Preview of JSON index in SQL Server 2025 | Microsoft Community Hub ZSTD compression in SQL Server 2025 | Microsoft Community Hub MSSQL Extension for VS Code: GitHub Copilot Preview + UI GA MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Introducing Schema Compare (Preview) - Azure SQL Devs' Corner SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 is now generally available (GA) | Microsoft Community Hub Copilot in SSMS preview Recently released: Updates to the SqlPackage and the DacFx ecosystem | Microsoft Community Hub Visual Studio 2022 Release Notes | Microsoft Learn Free SQL Managed Instance offer is now generally available Avoid T-SQL anti-patterns with the free T-SQL analysis tool - Azure SQL Devs' Corner | — | ||||||
| 5/12/25 | 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 SNAPSHOT backup T-SQL command in SQL Server 2022. Relevant links: Importing and exporting SQL Server databases using native backup and restore - Amazon Relational Database Service Learn about Amazon RDS maintenance window | AWS re:Post LLM Structured Output from Azure SQL Explained - Azure SQL Devs' Corner Create a Transact-SQL snapshot backup - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn | — | ||||||
| 4/14/25 | 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? Relevant links: Improving Azure SQL Database reliability with accelerated database recovery in tempdb | Microsoft Community Hub What the Decline of Sql Server Quality means for Developers and DBAs SLA for SQL Database | Azure AI will eliminate DBA Jobs faster than you think | — | ||||||
| 3/10/25 | 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 announced deprecation of Azure Data Studio. Relevant links: SQL Noir - A Detective SQL Game How to Write a Recursive CTE in SQL Server | LearnSQL.com Azure Data Studio Retirement - Azure SQL Devs' Corner Relational Databases - Surrogate Keys and Logical Duplicates (by Ami Levin) | — | ||||||
| 2/10/25 | 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. Relevant links: SQL Squid Game SQL Server Audit (Database Engine) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn microsoft-dbas-club/Maintenance/SQLVersionUpdates Tell us how you did and whether you survived the SQL Squid Game! 😉 | — | ||||||
| 1/13/25 | 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. Relevant links: Announcing SQL Server 2025 – SQLServerCentral What's New in SQL Server 2025 - Brent Ozar Unlimited® Optimized Locking - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn SQLBits is Coming Back to London in June 2025! - Brent Ozar Unlimited® | — | ||||||
| 12/9/24 | 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. Relevant links: Announcing Microsoft SQL Server 2025: Enterprise AI-ready database from ground to cloud - Microsoft SQL Server Blog Sessions Archive for 2023 - PASS Data Community Summit Resolving and Preventing Deadlocks in SQL Server SSMS v21: Dark Mode, Git, Vertical Tabs, and More - Brent Ozar Unlimited® Copilot in SSMS is Kinda Like IE in SSMS - Brent Ozar Unlimited® | — | ||||||
| 11/11/24 | 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? Relevant links: PASS Data Community Summit Incremental Integrity Check for Large Databases - Eitan Blumin's blog SQL Server Integrity Check - by Ola Hallengren tigertoolbox/MaintenanceSolution/5_job_Maintenance.sql · microsoft/tigertoolbox sp_can_tlog_be_applied (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn T-SQL Script to Roll Forward Transaction Log Backups - Eitan Blumin's blog | — | ||||||
| 10/14/24 | 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. Relevant links: Resources from Microsoft: Preview release of SDK-style SQL projects in Visual Studio 2022 - Microsoft Community Hub Native JSON support now in preview in Azure SQL Managed Instance - Microsoft Community Hub EAP for Vector Support Refresh - Introducing Vector type - Azure SQL Devs' Corner (microsoft.com) Calling external REST endpoints from Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn Index fragmentation: SQL Server Backup, Integrity Check, Index and Statistics Maintenance (hallengren.com) Should we do index maintenance on an Azure SQL Managed Instance or Azure SQL Database? (kendralittle.com) Stop Worrying About SQL Server Index Fragmentation (brentozar.com) Why SQL Server Index Fragmentation Isn't A Problem On Modern Storage Hardware – Darling Data (erikdarling.com) Index fragmentation scripts: microsoft-dbas-club/Indexes/Table and Index High Unused Space.sql at MadeiraData/microsoft-dbas-club Check Index Fragmentation Based on Page Fullness and Fill Factor Upcoming webinar at the Cloud Data Driven Meetup: Database DevOps for Leaders - Eitan Blumin, Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 12:00 PM | Meetup | — | ||||||
| 9/9/24 | 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 you to follow along: Common Causes and Troubleshooting Solutions for SQL AG Data Synchronization Latency - Microsoft Community Hub (sorry in advance!) Additional relevant links: Index cleanup : Harder than it looks - Simple Talk (red-gate.com) Find Overlapping Indexes.sql at chadbaldwin/SQL (github.com) | — | ||||||
| 8/12/24 | 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. Relevant links: 101 of Troubleshooting SQL Server on Linux - Microsoft Community Hub bcp utility - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Altering lock escalation for SQL Server tables (mssqltips.com) dbatools docs | Import-DbaCsv A Fast Way to Load Large CSV Files into Microsoft SQL Server | by Sasha Korovkina | — | ||||||
| 7/8/24 | 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 with Excel, and Eitan is irritated about people still not doing SQL jobs correctly in AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Relevant links: SQLBits Free Videos - YouTube JSON data type (preview) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Efficient Time-Based Audit Log Filtering for Azure SQL Database - Microsoft Community Hub UNISTR and ANSI SQL concatenation operator (||) (microsoft.com) SQL Server on Azure VMs: I/O analysis (preview) - Microsoft Community Hub Announcing the retirement of SQL Server Stretch Database - Microsoft SQL Server Blog 30 SQL Server Security Checks in 30 Days Archives - Straight Path Solutions Use Sparse Columns - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn SQL Server Jobs & AlwaysOn Interoperability | HADRMyJobs | — | ||||||
| 6/10/24 | 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 about Azure SQL! Relevant links: Data API builder General Availability (microsoft.com) Build REST API with Azure Data API Builder (DAB) (mssqltips.com) Zero ETL, Near-real time replication, Mirroring Azure SQL Databases in Fabric (microsoft.com) Announcing EAP for Vector Support in Azure SQL Database - Azure SQL Devs' Corner (microsoft.com) Update Policy for Azure SQL Managed Instance - Microsoft Community Hub Transactional Replication - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn MadeiraData/ReplicationManagementMechanism: Use SQL Server database tables to manage and configure Transactional Replication, and set it up easily between publishers and subscribers using stored procedures (github.com) | — | ||||||
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