Dec 8, 2025

Matan Yungman is our special host for today, who came especially to talk about his special project called "Rapido", which is capable of automatically tuning SQL queries at scale.

Perhaps there is some inspiration in it for us?

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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.

Please fill out the SQL Server on Linux adoption survey here! Thank you!

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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