PASS Summit 2014 is over, and wh’re here for a recap of what happened, what was announced, what we learned in the sessions we attended, and some thoughts on the direction Microsoft is heading.
Among other topics, we talk about:
- The summit keynote and the Microsoft vision
- Parallelism
- The new Query Store feature
- The new Stretched Tables feature
- Improvements to Cluster Quorum
- Backup performance improvements
- Database corruption recovery techniques
- Interesting behavior of Sequence with Delayed Durability
- The various activities during the summit
- And more..
Items mentioned in the show:
- PASS Summit 2014 Day 1 Keynote
- PASS Summit 2014 Day 2 Keynote
- Adam Machanic – Manhandling Paralellism, 2014 Edition
- Paul Randal – Advanced Data Recovery Techniques
- Allan Hirt – Did You Vote Today? A DBA’s Guide to Cluster Quorum
- Guy Glantser – Working with Very Large Tables Like a Pro in SQL Server 2014