SQL Server Radio Guy Glantser, Eitan Blumin

Guy and Eitan discuss the various High Availability and Disaster Recovery options available to us in Microsoft SQL Server, their main advantages, limitations, and when it's most suitable to use or not to use them.
Relevant links for further reading:
AlwaysOn Basic Availability Groups / Database Mirroring AlwaysOn "Enterprize" Availability Groups Failover Cluster Instance Log Shipping Transactional Replication

Guy and Eitan talk about some interesting news from Microsoft about SQL Server in Azure.
And also discuss the topic of Backups and Recovery, RTO, RPO, RCO, and database Integrity Checks.
Relevant links:
Microsoft Copilot in Azure extends capabilities to Azure SQL Database (Private Preview) - Microsoft Community Hub Regex in SQL DB (microsoft.com) SQL Server Regular Expressions Library Sample - Microsoft Community Hub STRING_SPLIT (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Do You Have a Proper Backup Strategy? (madeiradata.com) CHECKDB From Every Angle: Consistency Checking Options for a VLDB - Paul S. Randal (sqlskills.com) Where to Run DBCC on Always On Availability Groups - Brent Ozar Unlimited®  
Also, check out our previous episode, if you haven't yet:
SQL Server Radio: Episode 161 - EXCLUSIVE: Announcing the Biggest Innovation for Azure SQL Managed Instances (Codename: Hermes)

Niko Neugebauer and Vladimir Ivanovic are our esteemed guests for today, and they have a HUGE announcement to make about Azure SQL Managed Instances.
Extra! Extra! 🗞 Hear all about it on this exclusive scoop here at the SQL Server Radio podcast!
Relevant links:
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen GP (microsoft.com) Use Next-gen General Purpose service tier - Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Learn Try for free (preview) - Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Learn Next-gen General Purpose service tier brings 500 user dbs, improved storage and more to Azure #SQLMI (youtube.com) (2 min video)

Guy tries to convince Eitan that OPTION(RECOMPILE) is the ultimate "Turbo" button in SQL Server, and that it's strongly underappreciated.
Relevant links for more info:
OPTION(RECOMPILE) (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Recompile a Stored Procedure - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Should I use option(recompile)? – SQLServerCentral SQL SERVER - Parameter Sniffing and OPTION (RECOMPILE) - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Guy and Eitan discuss various practices in SQL Server that hurt performance and possibly waste money, negative VarDecimal numbers, renumbering Identity columns, and the new Azure Database Fleet Manager.
Relevant links:
SQL Server IN Clause With Multiple Literal Values Performance Behaviour | Neeraj Prasad Sharma Could SQL Injection be dangerous even when perfectly safe? | Eitan Blumin The Anatomy of Vardecimals | Mark S. Rasmussen Utility Scripts/ReNumber_Identity_Column.sql Introducing Azure Database Fleet Manager Also, Happy New Year! 🎉🎈🥂

Guy and Eitan talk about some great things about SQL Server, and mostly Guy’s experience in digging into execution plans and generating synthetic IO workloads.
Relevant links:
What’s new in SQL Server and Azure SQL 2023 Year in Review
Multi-Tenancy in the Real World | Eitan Blumin (Data Weekender 6.5)