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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