SQL Server Radio

Two weeks have passed, and it's time for our 4th show. As always, we have a mix of interesting stuff covering performance, data architecture, new services, tips, tricks, and much more. Among other topics, we talk about: Why pulling from a Linked Server is A LOT faster than pushing The effect of new hardware on Writelog waits Ways to improve the throughput of your data loading processes The archite...

You know you have a performance problem in your server, but where do you start looking in order to find what that problem is? On our 3rd show, we take a deep dive into performance tuning and talk about: The Top-Down and Bottom-Up methods and when to use which The various tools SQL Server gives us for performance tuning How to pinpoint the problem in any of the methods What to look for when tuning...

On our 2nd show, we start by talking about our trips. Matan shares about how great SQLBits was (including the custome party), and Guy talks about WPC (Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference). He explains what WPC is, about the Microsoft vision and its effects on the DBA's work. We then talk about interesting blog posts, forum discussions, news and incidant we encountered in the last month: The les...

We've been broadcasting for about a year in Hebrew. We love it a lot, and after we got some great feedback and encouragement, we decided to do it in English too. On the first show, we talk about Pass and the various activities it facilitates like Pass Summit, SQLSaturday, Local Chapters and Virtual Chapters. Later on, we talk about our favorite features from SQL Server 2014. Items mentioned in the...