Brent Ozar Unlimited® Weekly Links, October 26th Edition

Fast SQL on Azure VM

Microsoft just announced a really fast TPC-H benchmark result on SQL Server 2025 on an Azure VM, but ... note the Price/kQphH column. It's more than twice as much as physical boxes. Oof.

Time Change Woes

If you store anything but UTC, you can end up hitting problems like this during time zone changes.

Truncating a 1TB Table

What's the overhead in an AG?

Bob Ward's Load Test Tool

I bet we'll see this on conference stages this season.

Meeting Cost Calculator

Example here - click start. To set up the costs, put in the attendees and rough salaries here. Then leave it up as a shared screen during a conference call, and watch how quickly the meeting ends.

Cassette Futurism

Teenage Engineering's products are great examples of one of my favorite design styles, cassette futurism. The subreddit always has gorgeous stuff, too. (sigh) Dreamy.