Best Sqlserver Podcasts (2025)

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Investing for AI 4:59

1h ago4:59

4:59

The GenAI boom is growing like crazy. From hype to disasters to successes to investment to the embedding of GenAI tech into lots of products, it seems no one gets away from AI. My wife, kids, friends, they all talk about AI and alternately give me stories of huge successes or epic failures. Even those who just scroll through reels aren't immune as …

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Erik Darling and Kendra Little talk AI, SQL Server 2025, and the Future Is Text Files 45:48

7h ago45:48

45:48

Erik Darling joins Kendra to chat about AI tools, why they work better for Python and PowerShell than SQL, and what's exciting (and what's not) in SQL Server 2025. Along the way we describe the ONE THING we always want to configure in Resource Governor, why at least one SQL Server 2025 feature should be backported to 2022, and why the universe is t…

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Episode 182 - Matan Yungman's Show-and-Tell of Rapido 40:40

43m ago40:40

40:40

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 links: Matan Yungman | LinkedIn Matan Yungman (@MatanYungman) / X SQL Server 2025 is Now Generally Available | Mic…

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Your Security Checkup 3:03

7h ago3:03

3:03

Recently I saw an article on Simple Talk, 15 Practical Tips for Securing SQL Server, and I thought that many of these are fairly simple things. Turn off unused features, disable sa, etc. These are things that a lot of people probably ensure are in their SQL Servers builds. Though, I'm sure a lot of people don't bother. Read the rest of Your Securit…

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פרק 189 - מתן יונגמן בא לדבר על RAPIDO 46:49

4d ago46:49

46:49

מתן יונגמן בא להתארח בפרק מיוחד זה כדי לספר על מערכת "ראפידו" שהוא בנה, המבצעת שיפור ביצועים אוטומטי בבסיסי הנתונים, ואולי לתת לנו קצת השראה מעניינת. קישורים רלוונטים: Matan Yungman | LinkedIn Matan Yungman (@MatanYungman) / X SQL Server 2025 is Now Generally Available | Microsoft Community Hub What's New in SQL Server 2025 - SQL Server | Microsoft…

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How Important Are Real Time Decisions? 3:31

9h ago3:31

3:31

Imagine a perfect world? I have an AI agent that knows my business well. It's getting real time input from sales, from customers, it makes amazing decisions. We get a large order? We need to ramp up production of our widgets. We have an order pipeline of xx widgets and we know over time that yy% will close. Let's place a larger order with a supplie…

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SQL Server Licensing is Simple 2:27

2d ago2:27

2:27

Over the years I've had no shortage of licensing questions for SQL Server. At times it's felt a little crazy. Look at the licensing guide. Choose EE or SE and the number of cores. Then check if you're using VMs. Oh, and consider the cloud, and which cloud you're running a workload on. It's simple right? It can seem confusing, and at times I've wish…

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Don't Let Corner Cases Drive Your Design 3:59

4d ago3:59

3:59

If you graph computer/query cost against the size of data, you can get four quadrants: small data, small compute (most CRUD app queries) small data, big compute (complex BI queries for this quarter, most reporting) big data, small compute (logs, audit data) big data, big compute (complex BI queries across all our data) Read the rest of Don't Let Co…

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What's Your Theme Music? 2:39

11d ago2:39

2:39

A few weeks ago, I was at the Small Data SF 2025 Conference in San Francisco. I attended the inaugural event last year and decided to go back again. It's a great chance to hear people thinking about data and its impact on the world in a different way, recognizing that building lager and larger systems isn't always possible. Or a good idea. We might…

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Done is Better than Good 2:23

9d ago2:23

2:23

Mary Spender is a musician in the UK who I follow and hope to see live one day. She works hard producing content about music, that business, and, of course, songs. Recently she had a little essay on Instagram where talked about creative time and focus. In it she referenced Elizabeth Gilbert saying "done is better than good." My initial reaction was…

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Is Data Modeling Common? 3:15

17d ago3:15

3:15

Recently, I had a few questions on database modeling. One was posted in the SQL Server Central forums, and a customer asked about ERD tooling on the same day. This came shortly after Redgate acquired Vertabelo (now Redgate Data Modeler). This stood out to me as very rarely in the last few years have I found people consulting and updating a diagram …

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An Unexciting Exciting Release 2:51

20d ago2:51

2:51

SQL Server 2025 was released this week. The announcement came at Ignite and the PASS Data Community Summit with keynotes on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. While there are some things to look forward to in the release (What's New) and some highlights from T-SQL Tuesday this week, it seems that this release wasn't a very exciting one. On one h…

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Don't Create Workslop 4:18

24d ago4:18

4:18

I remember a time before email. Some of my first jobs were mostly based on paper being moved from person to person. I'm sure some of you remember these envelopes being used to communicate between individuals in an organization. I used those to send and get memorandums from others before we implemented email. Fortunately, our email implementation (c…

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Being Mindful of Design Time 3:09

27d ago3:09

3:09

Over the last few years, I've worked a lot with various customers on finding better ways to build database software, often using the principles of DevOps to drive the change. A lot of managers and leads want to see a smoother process to help their teams become more efficient. DBAs often want less overhead and friction in the process, while develope…

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Internal Staff Growth 2:54

29d ago2:54

2:54

Imagine that you are about to tackle a new project that will take more than a year. This might be a new system, perhaps a cloud migration, or maybe it's rewriting something that doesn't work well. You don't have enough employees to undertake the project without overloading everyone. Your team needs to grow. Would you rather hire a more senior perso…

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Episode 181 - The new SSMS is still blue 33:23

26d ago33:23

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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 Notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 3 Get Started - GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management…

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Do You Really Need HA? 3:33

1M ago3:33

3:33

I ran across a thought-provoking post from Chrissy LeMaire asking if we should reconsider SQL Server HA. The post actually asks if you've considered not using it. The default from Chrissy, for most installations, is to use standalone SQL Servers. This isn't to say she's against HA solutions (FCIs or AGs), but that they often cause problems and migh…

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Poor Name Choice 3:07

1M ago3:07

3:07

I wrote recently about some work with Redgate Clone, and one of the things I did was start up a blank container instance of SQL Server from the image named empty-sql-current. This image contains SQL Server 2019. Clearly, "current" was a poor choice. I see this often in various places, where someone will reference "current", "new", "latest", or some…

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Data > Hype 4:07

1M ago4:07

4:07

There is a ton of hype now about using GenAI for various tasks, especially for technical workers. There are lots of executives who would like to use AI to reduce their cost of labor, whether that's getting more out of their existing staff or perhaps even reducing staff. Salesforce famously noted they weren't hiring software engineers in 2025. I'm n…

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Practice Until You Don't Get It Wrong 2:45

1M ago2:45

2:45

I wrote recently about a bad first day for an intern. He/she was fired, without cause in my opinion, when a production database was damaged while following a document for developer setup. The situation felt like a mistake, and one that wasn't necessarily the fault of the individual. To me, this was extremely poor handling of the situation from a CT…

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פרק 188 - אאוטג'ים ועימודים 33:56

1M ago33:56

33:56

גיא ואיתן מדברים על התקלה הגדולה שהייתה בענן של אמזון לאחרונה. וגם דנים בנושאים הקשורים לשאילתות עימוד (pagination), ואינדקסים של DiskANN. קישורים רלוונטים: Pagination in SQL Server Why DISKANN Vector Indexes Are So Slow To Create In SQL Server לחברי הקהילה בלבד – 10% הנחה במהלך נובמבר על קורס -Advanced SQL, שנבנה במיוחד לארגונים עם צוותי DBA מנוסי…

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The Selfish Case for Learning AI 3:10

1M ago3:10

3:10

I ran across this article on a survey about AI usage recently. The headline is this: 55% of businesses admit wrong decisions in making employees redundant when bringing AI into the workforce. That sounds a little ominous for those making these decisions, and a lot of you might be saying, "I could have told you that. Using AI to replace people is a …

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Reducing Cloud Cost 3:40

1M ago3:40

3:40

Cloud costs are high and growing. Some orgs think they're out of control and are trying to limit spend. Some orgs are looking to leave the cloud. A lot of IT spend over the years has been seen as a cost center, with many executives trying to limit the growth or spend, even while they aim for digital transformations of their businesses. Throughout m…

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DevOps is DevOps 3:03

2M ago3:03

3:03

DevOps can mean a lot of things, but I find in practice that this results in a team using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery using automation to check and evaluate your software in some way. This should result in quicker delivery of updates and changes to customers, better agility, and higher quality of code. That last one on…

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Can/Can't Do/Don't 2:45

2M ago2:45

2:45

The other day, I asked my daughter if she wanted me to make her some eggs. She responded with a "Yes!" in text and came to sit up at the counter while I cooked for us both. We chatted a bit, and at one point she said, "Thanks for cooking, but it's not that I can't cook." I laughed a bit and responded with "this isn't a can/can't situation, it's a d…

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