SQL Server Radio

SQL Server Radio

Guy Glantser, Eitan Blumin

Episodes 178
Avg. Duration 36m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.6 (20)
Since Aug 2014
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Monthly
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Episodic
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89%
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About This Podcast

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.

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Recent Episodes

Episode 188 - Virtualization pitfalls and best practices with SQL Server

Jun 08, 2026 29m

Guy talks about an interesting incident involving performance problems in a virtual environment. And also, we talk about the SSMS StatisticsParser extension and the question of SSMS extensions in…

Episode 187 - Transactional Replication Between Availability Groups

May 13, 2026 30m

Guy and Eitan discuss a few new things in the latest SSMS update, and Eitan tells about a very peculiar use case involving transactional replication and AlwaysOn Availability Groups, and Guy talks…

Episode 186 - Automatic Index Compaction and New DB DevOps Tooling

Apr 13, 2026 31m

Guy and Eitan discuss several very interesting new features recently announced by Microsoft. Relevant links for more info: Stop defragmenting and start living: introducing auto index compaction |…

Episode 185 - The Liar's Dividend

Mar 09, 2026 35m

Guy and Eitan talk about Erik Darling's new monitoring app, which reminds us of similar tools we had experience with long ago. And, again, it's time to talk about AI. Specifically, a side-effect of…

Episode 184 - The Role of the DBA is Dead (Again)

Feb 09, 2026 35m

Looks like it's that time of the year again, to face the impending death of the DBA role! Or... Is it? Guy and Eitan discuss the topic and raise several interesting points you should listen to.…

Episode 183 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Next Gen

Jan 12, 2026 36m

In this year's first episode of the new year, Guy and Eitan discuss the new Next-gen General Purpose tier of Azure SQL Managed Instance, which is now GA. They also discuss a few interesting customer…

Episode 182 - Matan Yungman's Show-and-Tell of Rapido

Dec 08, 2025 40m

Matan Yungman is our special host for today, who came especially to talk about his special project called "Rapido", which is capable of automatically tuning SQL queries at scale. Perhaps there is…

Episode 181 - The new SSMS is still blue

Nov 10, 2025 33m

Guy and Eitan talk about the new preview version of SSMS, application locks, and stupid troubles with TempDB shrinkage. Relevant links: Announcing the Release of SQL Server Management Studio 22…

Episode 180 - Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions

Oct 13, 2025 37m

We let a dice roll decide today's topic, and the winner ended up being: Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions. We give our thoughts about it, best practices, pit falls, and tips.…

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

Sep 08, 2025 34m

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…

Episode 178 - AI is another thing to babysit

Aug 11, 2025 36m

Guy and Eitan discuss security-related best practice scripts, and several interesting AI topics. Relevant links: microsoft-dbas-club/Security and Compliance/Check_Passwords_SQL_Server_Generated.sql…

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

Jul 07, 2025 29m

Guy and Eitan discuss Stephen Planck's blog post "Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice", and add some of their own insights. Relevant links: Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will…

Episode 176 - SQL Server 2025 and more

Jun 09, 2025 38m

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 …

Episode 175 - Migrating from on-prem to AWS RDS

May 12, 2025 38m

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…

Episode 174 - Is SQL Server quality in decline? Or is it just friction?

Apr 14, 2025 32m

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…

Episode 173 - SQL Noir and the fate of Azure Data Studio

Mar 10, 2025 34m

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…

Episode 172 - Between SQL Squid Games and SSMS

Feb 10, 2025 31m

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.…

Episode 171 - Clueless about SQL Server 2025

Jan 13, 2025 32m

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…

Episode 170 - Interesting topics from PASS 2023 sessions

Dec 09, 2024 34m

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…

Episode 169 - Resumable Incremental Database Integrity Checks

Nov 11, 2024 32m

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…

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