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