In this episode Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson, Senior Technical Evangelists at Microsoft, go "SQL Heavy" with some of the SQL Server news from Ignite 2018, including Azure SQL Managed Instances, Azure SQL Hyperscale and SQL Server 2019!

Show links:

• Microsoft NZ Partner Hub
• Cloud practice playbooks
• Use SQL Database Managed Instance with virtual networks and near 100% compatibility
• Announcing Azure SQL Database Hyperscale public preview
• Hyperscale service tier (preview) for up to 100 TB
• What's new in SQL Server 2019* Ignite 2018: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale (Video)
• Download the Microsoft SQL Server 2019 technical white paper

Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. Today's episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub

Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com

Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.