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SQL Server Radio

by Guy Glantser, Eitan Blumin

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Episode 192 - What is new at SQLCon 2026 Barcelona

October 12, 2026 · 35 min

Guy and Eitan are spiritually obligated to talk about Microsoft's announcements made at SQLCon/FabCon Europe 2026 that took place on September. UGH... FINE! Relevant links: What's new across Microsoft SQL at SQLCon/FabCon Europe 2026…
Episode 191 - High CPU in SQL Server 2025

September 8, 2026 · 29 min

Guy and Eitan discuss an interesting case study where crazy high CPU was detected after an upgrade to SQL Server 2025. Relevant links: SQL 2025 showing crazy-high CPU | LobsterPot Solutions Enable Automatic Tuning - Azure SQL Database &…
Episode 190 - SQL Server 2025 gains RDS but loses Web

August 10, 2026 · 31 min

Guy and Eitan discuss news regarding SQL Server 2025, specifically that it's now publicly available on Amazon RDS, but also that Web Edition is now gone. Also, Guy shares an interesting use case with troubleshooting disk IO latency…
Episode 189 - Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices and More

July 6, 2026 · 39 min

Guy and Eitan go over Paul Randal's article of "Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices" (published in last March), and add their own input. We also talk about considerations of upgrading SQL Server to 2025, and we also learn…
Episode 188 - Virtualization pitfalls and best practices with SQL Server

June 8, 2026 · 30 min

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 general. Relevant links…

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Episode 187 - Transactional Replication Between Availability Groups

May 13, 2026 · 30 min

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 about a use case involving deletion…
Episode 186 - Automatic Index Compaction and New DB DevOps Tooling

April 13, 2026 · 31 min

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 | Microsoft Community Hub Automatic Index…
Episode 185 - The Liar's Dividend

March 9, 2026 · 36 min

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 it called "The Liar's Dividend"…
Episode 184 - The Role of the DBA is Dead (Again)

February 9, 2026 · 36 min

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. Relevant links: sqlfingers.com: Death of…
Episode 183 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Next Gen

January 12, 2026 · 36 min

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 stories, how they were resolved, and how…
Episode 182 - Matan Yungman's Show-and-Tell of Rapido

December 8, 2025 · 41 min

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 some inspiration in it for us? Relevant…
Episode 181 - The new SSMS is still blue

November 10, 2025 · 33 min

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 Preview 3 | Microsoft Community Hub Release…

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About the show

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.