SQL Server Radio

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

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

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

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)

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!

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®

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®

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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 Failover Cluster Instance Log Shipping Transactional Replication

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) SQL Server Regular Expressions Library Sample - Microsoft Community Hub STRING_SPLIT (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Do You Have a Proper Backup Strategy? (madeiradata.com) CHECKDB From Every Angle: Consistency Checking Options for a VLDB - Paul S. Randal (sqlskills.com) Where to Run DBCC on Always On Availability Groups - Brent Ozar Unlimited®   Also, check out our previous episode, if you haven't yet: SQL Server Radio: Episode 161 - EXCLUSIVE: Announcing the Biggest Innovation for Azure SQL Managed Instances (Codename: Hermes)

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!

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 SERVER - Parameter Sniffing and OPTION (RECOMPILE) - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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 even when perfectly safe? | Eitan Blumin The Anatomy of Vardecimals | Mark S. Rasmussen Utility Scripts/ReNumber_Identity_Column.sql Introducing Azure Database Fleet Manager Also, Happy New Year!

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)  

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  

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!

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/  

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

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.

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 Data Platform Summit

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  

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 Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization Scalar UDF Inlining

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 Weak Passwords Script to Check for Max DOP Configuration Best Practice

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 - blog.robsewell.com

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 Server 2022 on-prem PASS Data Community Summit Hug a DBA song by Killa DBA SQL Server 2022 song by Killa DBA The SQL Server Native Client has been removed from SQL Server 2022 (16.x) and SQL Server Management Studio 19 (SSMS). Switch to the new Microsoft OLE DB Driver (MSOLEDBSQL) for SQL Server or the latest Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server going forward. Mid-November 2022 Public Preview updates to Azure SQL Azure SQL database external REST endpoints integration in public preview Mid-November 2022 General Availability updates to Azure SQL Public Preview Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave for November 2022 General Availability Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave for November 2022 Learn more about the November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure SQL - General availability updates for late November 2022 Azure SQL - Public preview updates for late November 2022 DR Secondary licensing is free with Azure VM and SQL Managed Instance in PAYG model

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, and scale capacities – by Romain Ferraton SQL Server Standard vs Enteprise Edition features history – by Romain Ferraton SQL Server Scale Limits by Version and Edition - by Eitan Blumin sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors Madeira Toolbox: Buffer Pool Distribution by Tables.sql Get the last known actual execution plan using sys.dm_exec_query_plan_stats sys.dm_db_page_info sys.dm_db_log_info sys.dm_db_stats_properties sys.dm_db_stats_histogram Madeira Toolbox: Shrink All Shrinkable Transaction Logs.sql Madeira Toolbox: Shrink_Transaction_Log_File.sql Madeira Toolbox: Application_Reliability_Monitor_SQLServer.sql Madeira Toolbox: Application_Reliability_Monitor_AzureSQLDB.sql PASS Data Community Summit 2022 - Register now!

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 Central - Question of the Day Even more fun with DATETIME arithmetics (Eitan Blumin) The Itzik Ben-Gan Trick (batch processing hack)

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. Relevant links: SQL Server 2022 RC0 is now available! Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server 2022 Tutorial: Set up Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server Bidirectional Transactional Replication in SQL Managed Instance Considerations on Bidirectional Transactional Replication Azure Data Studio August release with SQL Server 2022 support Create identical symmetric keys on two servers - Microsoft Docs BACKUP SYMMETRIC KEY (Transact-SQL) - New SQL Server 2022 Syntax Troubleshooting Long-Running Shrink Operations - Eitan Blumin Shrink_Database_File_in_Specified_Increments.sql - Madeira Toolbox Too Many Plans for the Same Query Hash - Eitan Blumin

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 well! Relevant links: Forced Parameterization | Microsoft Docs Forced Parameterization Can Lead to Poor Performance | Microsoft Tech Community Why Multiple Plans for One Query Are Bad | Brent Ozar Relevant scripts from our Madeira Toolbox: Find Unused Indexes Find Redundant Indexes Join, Query, and Table Hints (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs Indexed Views | Microsoft Docs Second Normal Form  

Guy and Eitan discuss their favorite upcoming new features in SQL Server 2022, and talk about some major upcoming events and summits. Relevant links: SQL Server 2022 public preview is now available on Linux Introducing the SQL Server 2022 blog series by Bob Ward Contained Availability Groups in SQL Server 2022 | Eitan Blumin What is a contained availability group? | Microsoft Docs Erik Darling Blog series about Parameter Sensitive Plans XML Data Compression in SQL Server 2022 Link feature in Azure SQL MI for SQL Server Welcome to the new Azure SQL Database local development experience Planning new scenarios and use cases for Azure SQL Database local development experience DOP Feedback In SQL Server 2022 Upcoming community events: Data Platform Virtual Summit (by Data Platform Geeks) PASS Data Community Summit Madeira Toolbox Scripts: Compare SQL Server instance properties Change Tracking Generic Synchronization.sql 

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! Relevant links: How to HADR Your SQL Jobs Contained AlwaysOn Availability Groups Overview Pedro Lopes's Slides Deck for SQL Bits 2022 How to Identify and Fix TempDB Contention The Best Solution for SQL Server Partitioning Sliding Window Roll_Forward_Transaction_Log_Backups.sql Restore-DbaDatabase (DbaTools) Tsql2sday - My First Technical Job  

Guy and Eitan discuss interesting challenges and news about migrations in SQL Server. Also, we talk about performance considerations of partitioning in SQL Server, a blog post series about how to tune performance, and new scripts in our Madeira Toolbox on GitHub. Relevant links: Data-tier Applications (DACPAC and BACPAC) About: Snapshot Replication Generally available: Azure Virtual Machines increase storage throughput by up to 300% Generally available: Announcing Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio Public preview: Reverse Migration of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale tier to General Purpose tier Limitations for Reverse Migration SQL SERVER – Table Partitioning for Slow Performance | Pinal Dave How To Tune Performance - Chapter 4: Common Problems | Sagi Amichai Find Redundant Indexes with Recommendations for all Databases | Madeira Toolbox

Guy and Eitan discuss upcoming events and conferences in 2022, and also about new features in SQL Server 2022, and more. Relevant links: Conferences: SQL Server & Azure SQL Conference Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 DataGrillen PASS Data Community Summit 2022 (registration is open!) Get Ready for SQL Server 2022 Get Azure recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension Madeira Toolbox Roundup: Linked Server Vulnerability.sql Maintenance of Azure SQL Databases via Azure Automation and Powershell Balance CPU Cores Across NUMA Nodes.sql Database Design Best Practice Checks.sql

In today's show, Guy and Eitan host the co-founders of EverSQL, Oded Valin and Tomer Shay. We talk about their automated SQL tuning solution and SQL tuning best practices in general. eversql.com - Official Website Software Vendor Mistakes - Erik Darling Data

It's that time again! The time to talk about SQL Server! We got a bunch of different topics to talk about on this show. Relevant links: Cardinality Estimation: Combining Density Statistics | Paul White SQL Server CE: Multiple single-column statistics connected by AND SQL Server CE: Multiple single-column statistics connected by OR Detect Low PAGE Compression Success Rates in all Databases | Eitan Blumin The Curious Case of… tracking page compression success rates | Paul Randal The Ultimate Compression Savings Estimation Script for an Entire Database | Eitan Blumin SQLBits 2022 Conference Enterprise Data World 2022 Conference Buffer Pool Distribution by Tables | Guy Glantser Track Failed Logins in Azure SQL DB using RING_BUFFER_CONNECTIVITY Is SQL Server Profiler in Azure Data Studio? – SQLServerCentral Using the SSMS XEvent Profiler

Guy and Eitan discuss some interesting announcements and focus on the topic of Security in SQL Server. Relevant links: Announcing new features for the SQL IaaS Agent Extension! - Microsoft Tech Community Troubleshooting SQL Server made easy via Notebooks – seeking your feedback - Microsoft Tech Community Veeam security breach: Backup “Removal” Solutions - From Conti Ransomware With Love sp_helprotect is very useful in permission issue - Microsoft Tech Community Databases and Guests - Vitaly Bruk Performance Tuning Like a Pro - with Hypothetical Indexes - Eitan Blumin Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server Madeira Toolbox Roundup: GUEST user with database permissions.sql PUBLIC role with excessive permissions.sql DBCC CLONEDATABASE (Transact-SQL) Audit trace file binary search by timestamp.sql Security_Audit_Default_Trace.sql SQLSecurityAudit.sql Detect Weak Passwords in SQL Server track_logins_in_use_extended_events.sql

Guy and Eitan talk about the interesting new features announced in SQL Server 2022, a new sp_whoisactive version, and a bunch of Microsoft blog posts on Tech Community. Relevant links: SQL Server 2022: Announcing SQL Server 2022 preview: Azure-enabled with continued performance and security innovation Introducing SQL Server 2022 | Bob Ward Announcing the SQL Server 2022 Early Adoption Program SQL Server 2022 | Official Microsoft The new version of sp_whoisactive - v12.00 Extended Events to the Rescue - by Guy Glantser on SQLFriday New Microsoft support troubleshooting articles: SQL Server CE: Multiple single-column statistics SQL Server CE: Multiple single-column statistics connected by OR Update Stats Sample Rate does not work Use Orca.exe Tool to Verify Corrupted MSI/MSP file in Failed SQL Patching Use Trace Flag 902 (TF902) to Bring Up Your SQL Service in Failed Post Upgrade Script Prevent SQL Server Dump Generation in Hot Cases: Common Ways & Scenarios Recover TDE Databases in Disaster : Recover Steps for 3 Common Scenarios

Guy and Eitan talk about some important news, about Availability Sets in Azure, and several useful T-SQL scripts in our Toolbox. Relevant links: Azure Feedback is back! Troubleshooting SQL Server made easy via Notebooks – seeking your feedback Open sourcing the .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server Replication enhancements in the SQL Server 2019 CU13 release This episode was recorded on October 25th, before the important announcement about the release of SQL Server 2022. Check it out here. Availability Sets for Virtual Machines in Azure Madeira Toolbox Round-Up: Certificate Management Scripts Shrink All Shrinkable Transaction Logs.sql Ola Hallengren Recommended IndexOptimize Examples

Guy and Eitan talk about various topics related to SQL Server, including upcoming virtual events, interesting new scripts from our toolbox, and more! Relevant links: SQL Server 2016 SP3: Last Service Pack for SQL Server SQL Server Release Dates and Product Lifecycle PASS Data Community Summit - November 8-12, 2021 Development Lifecycle Basics for DBAs Group By Conference 2021 SSDT Methodologies & Features for DB DevOps Level up your skills with Bicep! TRY/CATCH and Transactions in SQL Server: TRY...CATCH (Transact-SQL) @@TRANCOUNT (Transact-SQL) XACT_STATE (Transact-SQL) SET XACT_ABORT (Transact-SQL) Today's Madeira Toolbox Round-Up: Table and Index High Unused Space.sql DBCC CLEANTABLE (Transact-SQL) DatabaseIntegrityCheck - Minimal check on PRIMARY, Full check on SECONDARY.sql DatabaseIntegrityCheck by Ola Hallengren Shrink_Database_File_in_Specified_Increments.sql SARGability Week by Erik Darling

Are you a data professional who needs to be able to convince people that you're right? Blythe Morrow is here to help! Blythe Morrow is our special guest for today, teaching us tech folks how to talk and convince people about topics in regards to Data Platform technologies. Blythe Morrow on LinkedIn Blythe Morrow is a Pre-Con speaker at PASS Data Community Summit Blythe Morrow in: Meet the Pre-Con Speakers Paper Sword B2B Paper Sword B2B is also the agency behind the Group By Conference

Guy and Eitan discuss change automation tricks for databases, do a round-up of the newest scripts in the Madeira Toolbox, and more. Relevant links: Database Change Automation: DbaTools sp_generate_merge by Daniel Nolan (readyroll) Add support for "Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation" option in SqlPackage / SSDT (Azure Feedback) Madeira Toolbox Round-Up: Missing Indexes with High Impact Increase Database File in Specified Increments SSRS Deployment Powershell script Update RegisterAllProvidersIP and HostRecordTTL in all AG Clusters (multi-subnet best practice) AT TIME ZONE Performance Issues (Jonathan Kehayias) More about AT TIME ZONE (Jonathan Kehayias) Dativerse event by DataGrillen on August 13th

Guy and Eitan shoot the breeze about several interesting topics that you wouldn't want to miss out on! Relevant links: SQL Server 2016 going out of mainstream support Intelligent Query Processing Capabilities in SQL Server Group by conference recordings on YouTube Dynamic search queries in T-SQL - THE NINJA WAY - by Eitan Blumin SQL Data Partners Episode 227: SSDT Methodologies for DB DevOps Data Platform Meetup Israel: Call for Speakers Wait Statistics - Torsten Strauss Great Reasons to Run Your Cloud App on Azure SQL MI - Niko Neugebauer 6 Techniques to Make SQL Server Speedometer Go Crazy - Amit Bansal Decrypting MSSQL Credential Passwords - NetSPI Blog How to Protect SQL Server from Hackers and Penetration Tests - Eitan Blumin Handy Powershell script templates to rule them all How to create indexed views ONLINE - by Michael J. Swart SQLCMD Template for Creating an Indexed View Online and Gradually Migrate Data Into it

Today we go over a list written by Kevin Chant about a year ago, and add some of our own insights. Relevant links: Ten comments I think every SQL Server DBA wants to say | Kevin Chant Eitan's T-SQL Tuesday blog posts about automation and productivity: T-SQL Tuesday #123 – Life hacks to make your day easier T-SQL Tuesday #127 – Tips and Tricks to Automate Your Life T-SQL Tuesday #130 – Eitan's Laws of Automation T-SQL Tuesday #135: The Tools of My Trade Test-DbaBackup Powershell cmdlet for automated restore tests Maintenance Script for Integrity Checks split into buckets per weekday How to Find which user deleted the database in SQL Server SQLWatch.io

We have two very special guests in today's show: the AzureSQL rockstars Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward! Some relevant links: Azure SQL Fundamentals | Microsoft Learn Azure SQL for beginners | YouTube Playlist Digital event: Transform Your Applications with Azure SQL http://aka.ms/newsupdate https://aka.ms/sqlworkshops DataMinutes | Data Grillen SQL Saturday official site

Guy and Eitan discuss lots of interesting recent news, and also about various technical topics in SQL Server. Relevant links: News about PASS and SQL Saturday: What’s next for PASS Summit this fall? Ideas forum The SQL Saturday Foundation Board of Directors The new Azure Data Community webpage from Microsoft PASS Summit 2020 session recordings PASS Pro Educational Series at Red Gate University Data Saturday #1 Recordings Available on YouTube Around the Clock with Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory Microsoft Ignite 2021 Book of News Azure retiring a lot of services on February 29, 2024 Azure Tips and Tricks: 5 Things you didn't know about Azure SQL Database SQL Server Automatic Tuning SQL Server Transaction Log And High Availability Solutions - Pros and Cons and more | Destin Joy Classic GUI issue or how to fix MAX Server memory too low | Vitaly Bruk

Check out the episode where we start movements to change the way everyone writes T-SQL code, and/or deliver data platform meetups! And we also talk about a bunch of other stuff as well. Relevant Links: Join the SQL Server Community Slack and our new channel #SQLServerRadio ! Ask Us Anything: Database Performance Tuning and Optimization | Data Platform Meetup Israel Redgate Software takes over from PASS and commits to the future of the Summit, SQLSaturday and the community Educational Series (Red-Gate University) Database DevOps Considerations for SQL Server Availability Groups GenerateDeployReport method of DacServices | Microsoft Docs Database DevOps Implementation | Madeira Data Solutions I learned to love WHILE (true) and you should too | Eitan Blumin We’re taking Azure certifications for data and AI to the next level | Microsoft Tech Community Azure Data Fundamentals: Explore Core Data Concepts (Part 1) | Microsoft Reactor Tel-Aviv Meetup Watching out for Deferred Name Resolution