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Mar 2020
38 m

Episode 114 - Lots of catching up to do

Guy Glantser, Eitan Blumin
About this episode

Guy Glantser is co-hosting with Eitan Blumin for the first time, and we have a lot of topics to cover and catching up to do.

  • PASS and SQLBits Conferences
  • Storage Best Practices for SQL on IaaS in Azure
  • SQL VM RP (Resource Provider)
  • Guy's hopes for SQL Server setup options
  • SQL Server 2019 features
  • And more
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