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Erik Darling joins Kendra Little to rate different SQL Server Performance Tuning Techniques in episode 81 of the Dear SQL DBA podcast. We share our opinions of... (deep breath)   Recompile hints, Query Store hints and plan forcing, CTEs, Resource Governor, the legacy cardinality ... Show More

Eugene Meidinger stops by to chat about Power BI Performance Tuning with Kendra. We talk about the various engines and languages used in Power BI and big-picture strategies for getting performance from the start. Eugene then talks about the community of tools and techniques that ... Show More

<p>SQL Server has a new feature that's currently only available in Azure SQL Database: Optimized Locking. <a href= "https://www.facility9.com/">Jeremiah Peschka</a> joins the podcast to talk through <a href= "https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/relational-databases/performance/optimi ... Show More

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In this episode, we talk about database architectures and some of their use cases, with Kyle Bernhardy, CTO of HarperDB. Kyle talks about what a database is, different types of databases, and when you might want to use one type of database over another. Show Links DevDiscuss (spo ... Show More

<p>I get a lot of emails asking me to talk about graph databases, so I want to start researching them, but I wanted to give you guys the framework of how I think about any databases to defuse any “magic” that might be there.</p> <p>In this video, I discuss what constrains a datab ... Show More

It's a special Mission Daily bonus episode! Ian is joined by Juan Loaiza, Executive Vice President of Systems Technology at Oracle Database. Throughout the years, Juan has seen a lot of change in the tech world, and it’s that pace of innovation that keeps him on his toes and exci ... Show More

<p>The evolution of SQL and the ease of access to ever larger sizes of computational power has made SQL and ETL a useful pairing for practitioners in the data space. But how do they work together exactly? And what challenges can it pose?</p> <p>Bharani Subramaniam and Madhu Podil ... Show More

Armond & Doc return to preview the Super Bowl (sort of but not really), talk about another batch of articles & tweets about artists with publishing problems, and begin their first #RankTheCatalog conversation about Michael Jackson (and yes, there are some 🔥 takes). 

In this episode, Michael Redlich, lead editor of the Java topic at InfoQ, sat down with podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the recent publication of the InfoQ Java Trends Report. Topics covered included the release of Java 21, the adoption of Java virtual threads, the ev ... Show More

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Today we’re joined by Michael Kearns, professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and an Amazon scholar. In our conversation with Michael, we discuss the new challenges to responsible AI brought about by the generative AI era. ... Show More