Guy and Eitan are spiritually obligated to talk about Microsoft's announcements made at SQLCon/FabCon Europe 2026 that took place on September. UGH... FINE! Relevant links: What's new across Microsoft SQL at SQLCon/FabCon Europe 2026 - Azure SQL Dev Corner More performance and flexibility for Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical | Microsoft Community Hub Announcing the Public Preview of Local Time Zone Support in Azure SQL Database - Azure SQL Dev Corner SQL Data Sync – the final phase of retirement | Microsoft Community Hub
Guy and Eitan discuss an interesting case study where crazy high CPU was detected after an upgrade to SQL Server 2025. Relevant links: SQL 2025 showing crazy-high CPU | LobsterPot Solutions Enable Automatic Tuning - Azure SQL Database & Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Learn Plan Forcing in SQL Server - Erin Stellato
Guy and Eitan discuss news regarding SQL Server 2025, specifically that it's now publicly available on Amazon RDS, but also that Web Edition is now gone. Also, Guy shares an interesting use case with troubleshooting disk IO latency issues. And finally, Guy and Eitan discuss the differences between SQL Server and PostgreSQL, and why would anyone still be paying for SQL Server. Relevant links: Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 SQL Server Web Edition Discontinued. Now What? SQL Server 2025: Web Edition Is Gone SQL Server 2016 end of support is here: Plan your next steps Troubleshoot slow SQL Server performance caused by I/O issues sqlfingers.com: Why Are We Still Paying for SQL Server?
Guy and Eitan go over Paul Randal's article of "Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices" (published in last March), and add their own input. We also talk about considerations of upgrading SQL Server to 2025, and we also learn something new about Temp Table Caching. Relevant links: SQL101: Top Ten SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices - Paul S. Randal SQL Server 2016 Extended Security Updates: Stay Protected While You Modernize | Microsoft Community Hub Memory-optimized TempDB metadata | Microsoft Learn Limitations of Memory-optimized TempDB metadata | Microsoft Learn SQL Server 2022 addresses GAM and SGAM contention in TempDB Temporary Table Caching Explained SQL Server Temporary Object Caching
Guy talks about an interesting incident involving performance problems in a virtual environment. And also, we talk about the SSMS StatisticsParser extension and the question of SSMS extensions in general. Relevant links: vmware.com/docs/sql-server-on-vmware-best-practices-guide Hyper-V and SQL Server Best Practices: What We Wish You Knew - SQL Server Consulting - Straight Path Solutions Announcing the SSMS StatisticsParser Extension - Brent Ozar Unlimited® SSMS Extension List Statistics are not collected when creating new table and indexes and loading data after. · Issue #990 · olahallengren/sql-server-maintenance-solution