Nov 10, 2025

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...

Oct 13, 2025

We let a dice roll decide today's topic, and the winner ended up being: Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions. We give our thoughts about it, best practices, pit falls, and tips.

Relevant links:

• SQL Server 2025 Preview RC1: Now Supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 | Microsoft Community Hub

Sep 8, 2025

Guy and Eitan discuss several interesting announcements and updates from Microsoft related to SQL Server and VS Code. And also Eitan talks about a weird issue he encountered involving page latch time-outs during DBCC CHECK command.

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Aug 11, 2025

Guy and Eitan discuss security-related best practice scripts, and several interesting AI topics.

Relevant links:

• microsoft-dbas-club/Security and Compliance/Check_Passwords_SQL_Server_Generated.sql
• microsoft-dbas-club/Security and Compliance/Best Practice Checks/Invalid_owner_for_system_schema_role_or_database.sql

Jul 7, 2025

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...