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The PASS Summit interview series continues, and today we talk to Pieter Vanhove (Blog | Twitter). Pieter is a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, and we talk to him about his experience from Microsoft and his previous job. Among other topics, we talk to Pieter about:

* Why you need a morning checklist

* How can you do it better with Policy Based Management and a Central Management Server

* Migrating SQL Server to Azure

* Automation in Azure

Pieter was also the first winner of Speaker Idol and therefore won the prize of presenting a session on this year's PASS Summit. We talk about how he won the contest, and also about how he prepared for presenting a session with another presenter that lives more than 5000 kilometers from him.

Items mentioned in the show:

* Pieter's PASS Summit Session: Run Your DBA Morning Checklist with Policy-Based Management

* Pieter Vanhove - How to perform index maintenance on Azure SQL Database

About Pieter

Pieter Vanhove is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer in Belgium and has been working with SQL Server since 2000. Performance tuning, SQL audits, migrations and training are part of the job. Pieter has also a profound knowledge in implementing high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Together with the SQLUG in Belgium, he helps organizing SQL Server Days and is also a regular speaker at Belgian and international events.