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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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Episode 169 - Resumable Incremental Database Integrity Checks
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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/Mai…
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Episode 168 - New data types in SQL Server and a question about index fragmentation
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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 …
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Episode 167 - Let's Troubleshoot SQL AG Synchronization Latency
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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!) Ad…
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Episode 166 - DR Planning for SQL Server and Loading Large CSV Files
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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 (mssqlti…
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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 Video…
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Episode 164 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly Transactional Replication
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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) Ze…
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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 not to use them. Relevant links for further reading: AlwaysOn Basic Availability Groups / Database Mirroring AlwaysOn "Enterprize" Availability Groups Fa…
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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. Relevant links: Microsoft Copilot in Azure extends capabilities to Azure SQL Database (Private Preview) - Microsoft Community Hub Regex in SQL DB (microsoft.com) S…
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Episode 161 - EXCLUSIVE: Announcing the Biggest Innovation for Azure SQL Managed Instances (Codename: Hermes)
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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 exclusive scoop here at the SQL Server Radio podcast! Relevant links: Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen GP (microsoft.com) Use Next-gen General Purpose serv…
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Episode 160 - OPTION RECOMPILE and the magical Turbo button
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Guy tries to convince Eitan that OPTION(RECOMPILE) is the ultimate "Turbo" button in SQL Server, and that it's strongly underappreciated. Relevant links for more info: OPTION(RECOMPILE) (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Recompile a Stored Procedure - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Should I use option(recompile)? – SQLServerCentral SQL SER…
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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 Manager. Relevant links: SQL Server IN Clause With Multiple Literal Values Performance Behaviour | Neeraj Prasad Sharma Could SQL Injection be dangerous eve…
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Episode 158 - Reverse Engineering Table Relations based on SQL Plans
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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. Relevant links: What’s new in SQL Server and Azure SQL 2023 Year in Review Multi-Tenancy in the Real World | Eitan Blumin (Data Weekender 6.5)…
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Guy and Eitan go back to their SQL Server roots and go hardcore into execution plan analysis and database corruption. Relevant links: Health Check Scripts/Find_Top_Exec_Plans_to_Optimize.sql SQLServerFast.com Database Corruption Challenge by Steve Steadman A DBA's Guide to the Proper Handling of Corruption Data TLV Summit PASS Data Community Summit…
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Episode 156 - Back to School with Encryption as a Tool
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Guy and Eitan celebrate resuming the school year with some learning of their own. This time, focusing on encryption types in SQL Server. Relevant links: External REST Endpoint Invocation is now GA! Types of Encryption in SQL Server PWDENCRYPT and PWDCOMPARE Dynamic Data Masking And also, don’t forget to register for the upcoming Data TLV Summit!…
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Today we have Kevin Chant as our guest! We talk about Kevin’s favorite topics: Microsoft Fabric, Azure DevOps, SQL Server, and more. Relevant links: https://www.kevinrchant.com/2023/06/13/create-your-own-microsoft-fabric-environment/
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Guy and Eitan discuss several interesting topics and recent experiences that you'd want to hear about! Relevant links: Trigram Wildcard String Search in SQL Server The Story of DBeaver, PostgreSQL, and the silly data engineer SQL Server Error Log Management High VLF Counts Got You Down? Here's How to Keep Them Low and Performance High…
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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! Check out his official website: Erik Darling Data Erik Darling's YouTube Channel We apologize in advance for Guy's occasional audio glitches, as he was having network issues on the day of recording…
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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. Relevant links: Monitor performance by using the Query Store Brent Ozar Unlimited SQLSkills Scary DBA SQL Authority PASS Data Community Summit SQLBits GroupBy Virtual Conference Da…
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Guy and Eitan share their experience from SQLBits 2023 and some of their favorite sessions. Relevant links: Official SQLBits Website SQLBits Content Library SQLBits YouTube Channel SQL Server Debugging with WinDbg – an Introduction Join #TeamHugo and Help Fight Leukemia Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization Azure Functions overview GitHub CoPilot…
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Episode 150 - Artificially Intelligent Query Processing
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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 takeover by our robot overlords. Relevant links: Intelligent Query Processing Adaptive Joins (Batch) Intelligent Query Processing Feedback family of features…
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Guy and Eitan list several common mistakes done by DBAs in SQL Server. Some relevant links: Architecting Database Dev and Test Environments: Best Practices and Anti-Patterns for SQL Server Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution HADR My Jobs - Open Source Solution by Madeira Columnstore Indexes: Planning and Implementation TSQL Script to Check for We…
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Today we have the pleasure of hosting Rob Sewell, and talking about the upcoming SQLBits event of 2023! Relevant links: SQLBits 2023 agenda, speakers, pricing, and registration - events.sqlbits.com/2023 YouTube playlist of all 195 sessions from SQLBits 2022 - available for free! SQLBits helpers form - beard.media/sqlbits-helpers Rob Sewell's blog -…
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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 features of Azure SQL announced in November 2022. Relevant links: SQL Server 2022 is now generally available Consumption-based PAYG billing model for SQL Serv…
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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, and talking about Application Reliability Errors. Relevant links: Buffer Pool Extension SQL Server editions comparison dashboard by domains, features…
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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-SQL Fundamentals, and more. Relevant links: Itzik's personal web page at tsql.lucient.com Itzik Ben-Gan's Blog posts at SQLPerformance.com SQL Server …
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