Episode 158 - Reverse Engineering Table Relat...

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 & Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Lear ...  Show more

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 issues. And finally, Guy and Eitan discuss the d ...  Show more

Erik Darling joins Kendra Little to rate different SQL Server Performance Tuning Techniques in episode 81 of the Dear SQL DBA podcast. We share our opinions of... (deep breath)   Recompile hints, Query Store hints and plan forcing, CTEs, Resource Governor, the legacy cardinality ...  Show more

The evolution of SQL and the ease of access to ever larger sizes of computational power has made SQL and ETL a useful pairing for practitioners in the data space. But how do they work together exactly? And what challenges can it pose?

Bharani Subramaniam and Madhu Podil ...

Guests are Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu. Pierre-Gilles and Glen are Google Developer Experts. We had an opportunity to catch up with them at Next 2025 and we spoke about Platform Engineering, GitOps, Policy as code and AI. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? ...  Show more

Our preferred external storage solutions, favorite collaboration tools, motivations for smartphone upgrades, and thoughts on the potential for a Skynet-level AI scenario in our lifetime.