Jul 6, 2026
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 something new about Temp Table Caching.
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Jun 8, 2026
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.
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May 13, 2026
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 triggers.
Important note: The part about SQL Server 2025 CU4 adding automatic update was...
Apr 13, 2026
Guy and Eitan discuss several very interesting new features recently announced by Microsoft.
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Mar 9, 2026
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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