It’s the monthly all-over-the-place version of the show, and this time we have a mix of various topics like the cloud, T-SQL development, performance, SQL Server 2014, events and presentation skills.

We also have some more mystery around the Non-Blocking Sort issue from earlier shows.

More specifically, we talk about:

  • Is the cloud a threat or opportunity for DBAs?
  • The ways to pass a list of values to a Stored Procedure
  • The distribution of installations between SQL Server versions
  • Non-Blocking Sort – Is there a hidden Iterator that helps it?
  • Various presentations worth watching
  • The new SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator
  • And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

  • Guy Glantser – DBA in the Cloud: Threat or Opportunity?
  • Adam Machanic – SQLCLR String Splitting Part 2: Even Faster, Even More Scalable
  • Erland Sommarskog – Arrays and Lists in SQL Server
  • 24 Hours of Pass Summit Preview Edition
  • Julie Koesmarno – “I Want It NOW!” Data Visualization with Power View
  • Kalen Delaney – In-Memory OLTP Internals: How is a 30x Performance Boost Possible?
  • 24 Hours of Pass Portuguese Edition
  • 24 Hours of Pass SQL Server 2014 Edition
  • Sunil Agarwal – SQL Server 2014: In-Memory OLTP for Database Administrators
  • Sunil Agarwal – Columnstore Technical Deep Dive
  • Jimmy May – Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014: Flipping the DW Faster Bit
  • SQLSaturday Israel
  • Aaron Bertrand – Tricks to play on your DBA
  • Madeira Course – What’s New in SQL Server 2014?