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

About this episode

Guy and Eitan discuss announcements from Microsoft regarding SQL Server and VS Code, along with a peculiar issue related to 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-outs during DBCC CHECK command. Please fill out the SQL Server on Linux adoption survey here ! Thank you! Relevant links: Higher log rate for business critical service tier in Azure SQL MI | Microsoft Community Hub What's New in MSSQL Extension for VS Code v1.35 Accelerating SQL Server 2025 momentum: Announcing the first release candidate - Microsoft SQL Server Blog Error 845 Time-out occurred while waiting for buffer latch type 4 during DBCC CHECK - Eitan Blumin's blog

People in this episode

Hosts: Guy Glantser, Eitan Blumin

Topics covered

• SQL Server 2025
• Microsoft announcements
• VS Code updates
• latch timeouts
• DBCC CHECK
• Azure SQL MI

Keywords

• SQL Server 2025
• VS Code
• Microsoft
• latch timeouts
• DBCC CHECK
• Azure SQL MI
• Error 845

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: SQL Server 2025, VS Code

Books & works: Error 845 Time-out occurred while waiting for buffer latch type 4 during DBCC CHECK

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