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• Episode 181 - The new SSMS is still blue

  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 Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (Preview) | Microsoft Learn Overview of the Query Hint Recommendation Tool (Preview) - SQL Server Management Studio | Microsoft Learn Announcing the Release of SSMS 22 Preview 4 | Microsoft Community Hub sp_getapplock (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn microsoft-dbas-club/Utility Scripts/Shrink_Database_File_in_Specified_Increments.sql microsoft-dbas-club/TempDB/TempDB_Sizing_Check_and_Remediation.sql microsoft-dbas-club/TempDB/TempDB Space Utilization Check.sql

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• Episode 180 - Computed Columns with PERSISTED and Indexed Expressions

  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 Specify computed columns in a table - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Indexes on computed columns - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn

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• Episode 179 - SQL Server 2025 RC0 announced and weird latch timeouts

  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! Relevant links: Higher log rate for business critical service tier in Azure SQL MI | Microsoft Community Hub What's New in MSSQL Extension for VS Code v1.35 Accelerating SQL Server 2025 momentum: Announcing the first release candidate - Microsoft SQL Server Blog Error 845 Time-out occurred while waiting for buffer latch type 4 during DBCC CHECK - Eitan Blumin's blog

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• Episode 178 - AI is another thing to babysit

  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 microsoft-dbas-club/Security and Compliance/Windows Group Members.sql Microsoft Introduced AI Integrations for SQL Server. - Brent Ozar Unlimited® What's New in MSSQL Extension for VS Code v1.34 AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database EitanBlumin/sqlcmd-gui: a simple graphical user interface based on SQLCMD for executing parameterized TSQL scripts 

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• Episode 177 - Five and a Half Enhancements in SQL Server 2025

  Guy and Eitan discuss Stephen Planck's blog post "Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice", and add some of their own insights. Relevant links: Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice - SQL Table Talk Configure a flexible automatic failover policy for an availability group - SQL Server Always On | Microsoft Learn Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) in TempDB | Microsoft Learn Enable and Run tempdb on tmpfs for SQL Server 2025 Preview on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Optimized Locking - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Standard Developer edition in SQL Server 2025 | Microsoft Learn ABORT_QUERY_EXECUTION query hint - public preview | Microsoft Community Hub  

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