We love working with SQL Server, but over the years, we’ve had some interesting, funny, sad and horrific cases related to it. On this show, we talk about some of those cases.

Among other topics, we talk about:

• How to bring SQL Server online when it has no tempdb files
• Stored Procedure and Plan Cache optimization over the phone
• Finding out who dropped a database
• A very destructive MERGE statements that kills clusteres
• Data corruptions
• Table variable horrors
• And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

• Matan Yungman – The Strange Story About the MERGE that Killed the Cluster
• Paul Randal – Advanced Data Recovery Techniques
• Russ Thomas’ Monthly DBA Challenge

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2015 started well, fast, and furious.

We start the show by congratulating Guy for earning the MVP title, and Guy explains what he did in order to get this achievement, and what you can do to earn it too.

We also talk about the crazy March we're going to have, with a lot of flights, conferences and many other events.

In addition, talk about: 

* A weird scenario of updating a table using a view

* How to perform an ordered update efficiently

* What to expect when transitioning from DBA to consultant

* Parameterization

* Productivity and learning optimizations

* DBA challenges

* Physical joins

* And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

* Guy Glantser - I'm a SQL Server MVP!

* Matan Yungman - Things I learned in 2014

* Guy Glantser - Parameterization Part 7: Summary

* Matan Yungman - What to Expect When Transitioning from DBA to Consultant

* Russ Thomas - Monthly DBA Challenge

* SQL Hangouts

2015 started well, fast, and furious.

We start the show by congratulating Guy for earning the MVP title, and Guy explains what he did in order to get this achievement, and what you can do to earn it too.

We also talk about the crazy March we’re going to have, with a lot of flights, conferences and many other events.

In addition, talk about: 

• A weird scenario of updating a table using a view
• How to perform an ordered update efficiently
• What to expect when transitioning from DBA to consultant
• Parameterization
• Productivity and learning optimizations
• DBA challenges
• Physical joins
• And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

• Guy Glantser – I’m a SQL Server MVP!
• Matan Yungman – Things I learned in 2014
• Guy Glantser – Parameterization Part 7: Summary
• Matan Yungman – What to Expect When Transitioning from DBA to Consultant
• Russ Thomas – Monthly DBA Challenge
• SQL Hangouts

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On this show, we talk about monitoring in SQL Server. But actually, monitoring is not only monitoring: It's also baselining, data collection, data analysis, reporting and alerting, and we cover all of those in the show. Among other topics, we talk about:

* The different levels of monitoring

* Why it's important to have a baseline

* Trend analysis

* What should you monitor in SQL Server

* The set of tools for monitoring, baselining, data collection, reporting and alerting

* What should you do when you get an alert about a certain problem

* And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

* Conor Cunningham - Managing 1 Million+ DBs-How Big Data is used to run SQL Azure

* Maria Zakourdaev - Alert Visualization Recipe

Happy 2015, everybody!

On this show, we talk about monitoring in SQL Server. But actually, monitoring is not only monitoring: It’s also baselining, data collection, data analysis, reporting and alerting, and we cover all of those in the show. Among other topics, we talk about:

• The different levels of monitoring
• Why it’s important to have a baseline
• Trend analysis
• What should you monitor in SQL Server
• The set of tools for monitoring, baselining, data collection, reporting and alerting
• What should you do when you get an alert about a certain problem
• And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

• Conor Cunningham – Managing 1 Million+ DBs-How Big Data is used to run SQL Azure
• Maria Zakourdaev – Alert Visualization Recipe

Happy 2015, everybody!

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Show 12 is here, and yet again we have a mix of various SQL Server topics. Among them are High Availability, development, performance, Columnstore Indexes, Azure, and general news and events.

More specifically, we talk about:

* How log backup and Log Shipping really work

* What parts of SQL Server Memory does the Max Server Memory option controls

* Performance differences between Row_Number and CROSS APPLY

* A disturbing bug with the SYSDATETIME function

* Clustered Columnstore Indexes, and how Rebuild and Reorganize work on them

* Azure Storage

* SQLRally and SQLBits conferences

* And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

* Guy Glantser - SQL Server Developer Tips that Can Save Your XXX

* Matan Yungman - Rebuilding and Reorganizing Clustered Columnstore Indexes

* Kendra Little - Did You Give SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition Enough Memory?

* Glenn Berry - Running SQL Server 2014 on an Azure Virtual Machine

* Mary Jo Foley - Microsoft says Storage service performance update brought Azure down

* Azure Premium Storage

Show 12 is here, and yet again we have a mix of various SQL Server topics. Among them are High Availability, development, performance, Columnstore Indexes, Azure, and general news and events.

More specifically, we talk about:

• How log backup and Log Shipping really work
• What parts of SQL Server Memory does the Max Server Memory option controls
• Performance differences between Row_Number and CROSS APPLY
• A disturbing bug with the SYSDATETIME function
• Clustered Columnstore Indexes, and how Rebuild and Reorganize work on them
• Azure Storage
• SQLRally and SQLBits conferences
• And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

• Guy Glantser – SQL Server Developer Tips that Can Save Your XXX
• Matan Yungman – Rebuilding and Reorganizing Clustered Columnstore Indexes
• Kendra Little – Did You Give SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition Enough Memory?
• Glenn Berry – Running SQL Server 2014 on an Azure Virtual Machine
• Mary Jo Foley – Microsoft says Storage service performance update brought Azure down
• Azure Premium Storage

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Did you know that SQL was initially called "Sequel" (Structured English Query Language)?

On this show, we go back to basics and talk about our favorite language - Transact-SQL (T-SQL).

We cover a lot of topics in the fields of development, performance and maintenance. Among them:

* The logical phases of query processing

* Our favorite and least favorite T-SQL features

* T-SQL development best practices

* How to avoid writing long Stored Procedures

* How to avoid writing the "mother of all queries"

* The Axis of Evil T-SQL featrues

* Why you should (almost) never use table variables

Items mentioned in the show:

* Matan Yungman - The Axis of Evil

* Itzik Ben-Gan - Creative Uses of the APPLY Operator (Part1)

* Itzik Ben-Gan - Creative Uses of the APPLY Operator (Part2)

Did you know that SQL was initially called “Sequel” (Structured English Query Language)?

On this show, we go back to basics and talk about our favorite language – Transact-SQL (T-SQL).

We cover a lot of topics in the fields of development, performance and maintenance. Among them:

• The logical phases of query processing
• Our favorite and least favorite T-SQL features
• T-SQL development best practices
• How to avoid writing long Stored Procedures
• How to avoid writing the “mother of all queries”
• The Axis of Evil T-SQL featrues
• Why you should (almost) never use table variables

Items mentioned in the show:

• Matan Yungman – The Axis of Evil
• Itzik Ben-Gan – Creative Uses of the APPLY Operator (Part1)
• Itzik Ben-Gan – Creative Uses of the APPLY Operator (Part2)