Best Sqlserver Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 177 - Five and a Half Enhancements in SQL Server 2025 29:18

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Guy and Eitan discuss Stephen Planck's blog post "Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice", and add some of their own insights. Relevant links: Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice - SQL Table Talk Configure a flexible automatic failover policy for an availability group - SQL Server Always On | Microsoft Learn Accelerated D…

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A Well Deserved Break 2:44

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This is my last day of work. Not forever, just for six weeks. I'm off on my sabbatical after today and won't be back until August 11. However, everything should run smoothly with Grant and Kellyn holding things down until I return. Have a little patience with them as this site can be a bit of a hectic whirlwind at times, and they still have other j…

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The Technical Debt Anchor 2:59

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I ran across an article on the 7 types of tech debt that can cripple your business, which is a great title. It certainly is one that might scare a lot of CTOs/CIOs/tech management. I am sure that much of the IT management gets concerned on a regular basis with how quickly their staff can evolve their software to meet new business needs. The first t…

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פרק 184 - מתגעגעים לשיעמום מתוך הממ(שר)ד 39:54

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גיא ואיתן מדברים על העבודה בצל הקונפליקט עם איראן וכל הבלגן, ודנים בנושאים של אבטחת מידע ב-SQL Server. קישורים רלוונטיים: Introducing "Backups on Secondary" for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups with SQL Server 2025 | Microsoft Community Hub Configure a flexible automatic failover policy for an availability group - SQL Server Always On | Mic…

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The Data Warehousing Choice 2:50

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Each time I compile and curate the Database Weekly newsletter, I find lots of Fabric content from the various sources I watch to compose the newsletter. Since I primarily deal with the Microsoft Data Platform stack, this makes sense. Most of the things I am interested in are related to Microsoft, and as a result, I tend to use sources that also use…

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Multiple Monitoring Tools 3:08

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Part of my Redgate work is with customers who need to monitor their database servers. With estates growing quickly, both in scale and types of database platforms used, keeping an eye on everything can be challenging. Add in the lack of staff growing as quickly are the number of servers, and I find many companies seeking out monitoring tools to bett…

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SQL Server 2025 Excitement 2:54

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Are you looking forward to SQL Server 2025? Or perhaps you think this is just another release, or perhaps you are not looking for new features or capabilities in your environment. Maybe you don't care about new things, but are looking for enhancements to features introduced in 2017/2019/2022. There is certainly no shortage of things that can be imp…

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Patching the Patch 3:08

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I had to make a few changes to a SQL Saturday event recently. The repo is public, and some of the organizers submit PRs for their changes, and others send me an email/message/text/etc. for a change. In this case, an organizer just asked for a couple of image updates to their site. I opened VS Code, created a branch, added a URL for the images, and …

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What is a Failed Deployment? 3:44

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When talking about DevOps, the goal is to produce better software over time. Both better quality as well as a smoother process of getting bits to your clients. There are a number of metrics typically used to measure how well a software team is performing, and one of the things is Change fail percentage. This is the percentage of deployments that ca…

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Episode 176 - SQL Server 2025 and more 38:14

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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 | Micr…

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Shorten the Debate 2:21

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Many of us are faced with choices and decisions constantly in our jobs. How do we approach a problem? What should we do as a team to get the work done? How do we code or manage or test or do something else with a database? Maybe more importantly, how long do we spend deciding? Read the rest of Shorten the Debate…

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Reflecting on the Mythical Man Month 4:50

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At an event recently, I had a chat with someone after one of my sessions. I had been speaking on DevOps and ways to better structure your team and build software. After the session, one person asked me if I'd read The Mythical Man Month and if I felt we'd gotten a lot better at building software since that book was published. I do think we have got…

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IT Unionization 2:42

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I've been reading an interesting book that looks at some of the ways that we can better build software in enterprises. One of the side notes in the book is that the tech companies have the funding and the ability to disrupt many other types of businesses, not just technology. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others have delved into other types of ind…

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Helping Students with a Data Professional Career 2:52

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At a recent event, I had a student ask about how to get started as a data professional. What types of things should they do? What platform should they work on or learn? Where should they focus time? What tools are available? Those are all good questions and many of you likely have your own advice. I'll give a few things to think about today, which …

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פרק 183 - שי אנגלברג הידוע בכינויו 36:27

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בפרק מיוחד זה גיא ואיתן מארחים את שי אנגלברג האחד והיחיד! שי הוא מומחה למסדי נתונים בעברו, ואיש רב אשכולות בימינו אנו. הקשיבו לשיחה המעניינת שלנו על עולם הדאטה המודרני, ועד כמה אנחנו צריכים להילחץ מהמצב :) Shy Engelberg | LinkedInBy SQL Server Radio

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Episode 285: Who Is Using Microsoft Fabric 34:05

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Fabric personas were originally designed to break down the various functional roles within Microsoft Fabric—such as Power BI, Data Factory, Data Activator, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Warehouse, and Real-time Analytics—into more manageable, bite-sized sections. The goal was to prevent users from feeling overwhelmed by the platform’s breadt…

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Changing the Paradigm of Work 3:11

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I saw an article on AI usage that is based on an upcoming book that suggests redesigning the world around new tech, not adding it to existing things. The first example is how electricity was introduced to existing factories, but it only provided some incremental gains until new factories were redesigned around electric motors. There's also an examp…

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Does Version Control Scare You 2:58

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As a part of my job, I often work with customers on how they can get database code into a version control system. That's Git for the most part today, which is the most popular system in the world. I'm comfortable using Git for many basic tasks, but I am not an expert by any means. I've used version control for years, and quite a few systems, and I …

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The AI View from Above 3:20

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It likely isn't a surprise to many of you that executives like AI. A survey shows that 74% of executives surveyed have greater confidence in AI-generated insights than advice from colleagues or friends. At the board level, even more (85%) favor AI-driven advice. That's amazing to me, and while I might think this is a bit too much trust being placed…

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Are Data Breaches Inevitable? 3:14

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I read a piece recently that got me thinking that data breaches might be inevitable. Disclosure: This was written by Redgate, for whom I work, titled "Data breaches May Be Inevitable—Compliance Failures Don’t Have to Be". It's based on our research with the State of Database Landscape survey as well as feedback and conversations with customers. The…

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Episode 175 - Migrating from on-prem to AWS RDS 38:59

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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 …

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Deleting a Database 3:02

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Who among us has deleted a production database? I'd hope it's very few of you that have done this in your career. I'm sure a few of you have deleted (or truncated or updated all rows for) a table in production. I've done that a few times, but fortunately, I've been able to recover the data quickly. I had this happen in SQL 6.5 and was grateful I co…

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Database DevOps Recommendations 3:13

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The DORA organization is constantly researching how to better produce software at any organization. This is similar to work done by Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute many years ago. Both groups are trying to determine what things help engineers work better and produce high-quality software. On the DORA site, there is a database change …

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How Helpful is a GenAI Copilot 3:23

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I'm sure many of you have tried a GenAI LLM to do something. Maybe write some code, maybe get some sort of recommendation or suggestion, maybe to rewrite something or summarize text. I'm sure you have had some feelings about whether the tool made you more or less productive. There was a trial conducted by the Australia Department of the Treasury on…

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Rising Pay for Certifications 2:45

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Certifications can pay off, at least in some areas. There's a piece that talks about pay rising for some tech professionals when they have some credentials. Networking, architecture, and project management are mentioned in the report, as are database and data management. I haven't seen the source report, and I'm not sure which certifications are ge…

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פרק 182 - משאבים קהילתיים 30:50

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גיא ואיתן מדברים על ההרצאה שאיתן העביר לאחרונה בנושא משאבים חינמיים של הקהילה, בלוגרים ומרצים ששווה להכיר בתחום ה-SQL Server, ועוד. קישורים רלוונטים: The DBA's Essential Toolkit - Eitan Blumin Brent Ozar Unlimited - SQL Server Consulting and Training Itzik Ben-Gan T-SQL - Home SQL.KIWI - Page Free Space Aaron Bertrand – SQLBlog.org Ami Levin - YouT…

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Learn to Code 2:56

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I thought this story about a programmer and a GenAI to be rather humorous. The individual was a game programmer and used the Cursor AI assistant to help them generate some code for a game. After a few hundred lines of code, the AI delivered this: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling…