Episode 160 - OPTION RECOMPILE and the m...

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 (SS ... Show More

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 Linu ... Show More

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 ... Show More

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

New to learning SQL Server? Get the scoop on free online resources to look up information, ask questions of community members, and learn SQL Server from the ground up. Links from the episode are at: https://sqlworkbooks.com/dear-sql-dba/training-resources-for-sql-noobs/ 

<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

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at <a href="https://talkpython.fm/366">talkpython.fm/366</a> 

Hey Hussein I have a 2 million row table used in my CRUD python app, I’m worried that as the table grow my inserts will slow down, should I consider sharding my database or partition the table? thank you I’m avid of simplicity in design if I can do it in one machine I’ll do it. S ... Show More

<p>Things to consider when choosing a database</p><ul><li>Speed &amp; Latency</li><li>Consistency, ACID Compliance</li><li>Scalability</li><li>Language support &amp; Developer Experience</li><li>Relational vs. Non-relational (SQL vs. NoSQL)</li><li>Data types</li><li>Security</li ... Show More

<p>MongoDB, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL, or any other database manages concurrency control differently. There are two methods, pessimistic and optimistic, both have their pros and cons. Let explore how different databases implement this and what is the effect on perf ... Show More

<p>The communication between backend applications and database systems always fascinated me. The protocols keep evolving and we are in constant search for an efficient protocol that best fit the workload of Backend-DB communication.</p> <p>In this episode of the backend engineeri ... Show More

<p>MySQL is clustered by default on the primary key which means inserts have to be ordered, let us discuss why UUID (random in nature) has bad performance in MySQL and whether postgres wins here. We will also explain why Sequential Writes are Faster than Random in MYSQL and &nbsp ... Show More

Replication is the process of pushing changes from the master node to worker replica nodes in a database system to allow for horizontal scalability. One of the methods of replication is statement-based which is popular in MySQL. In this episode of the Backend Engineering Show, I ... Show More