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Guy Glantser, Eitan Blumin

SQL Server Radio

35 minutes 30 seconds

Episode 185 - The Liar's Dividend
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".

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9 March 2026, 12:00 pm
35 minutes 36 seconds

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

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- sqlfingers.com: Death of the DBA (Again) (Reddit thread)
9 February 2026, 12:00 pm
36 minutes 3 seconds

Episode 183 - Azure SQL Managed Instance Next Gen
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 they're not actually SQL Server's fault.

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12 January 2026, 12:00 pm
40 minutes 40 seconds

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

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8 December 2025, 12:00 pm
33 minutes 23 seconds

Episode 181 - The new SSMS is still blue
Guy and Eitan talk about the new preview version of SSMS, application locks, and stupid troubles with TempDB shrinkage.

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10 November 2025, 12:00 pm
37 minutes 55 seconds

Episode 180 - Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions
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.

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13 October 2025, 12:00 pm
34 minutes 40 seconds

Episode 179 - SQL Server 2025 RC0 announced and weird 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!

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8 September 2025, 12:00 pm
36 minutes 50 seconds

Episode 178 - AI is another thing to babysit
Guy and Eitan discuss security-related best practice scripts, and several interesting AI topics.

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11 August 2025, 12:00 pm
29 minutes 18 seconds

Episode 177 - Five and a Half Enhancements in SQL Server 2025
Guy and Eitan discuss Stephen Planck's blog post "Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice", and add some of their own insights.

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7 July 2025, 12:00 pm
38 minutes 14 seconds

Episode 176 - SQL Server 2025 and more
Many announcements and interesting releases came out this past month, so we got a lot to talk about in this episode!

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9 June 2025, 12:00 pm
38 minutes 59 seconds

Episode 175 - Migrating from on-prem to AWS RDS
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.

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12 May 2025, 12:00 pm
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