Today's show notes are quite a handful!

• Red Gate report about the State of Database DevOps
• Eitan's session about Development Lifecycle Basics for DBAs
• Free  online  conferences  and  events:
  • Data Community Weekender Europe
  • Data Platform Discovery Day
  • GroupBy
  • DataPlatformGeeks Virtual Symposium
  • PASS Recordings Listing
  • Red-Gate Streamed
  • SentryOne Webinars
  • T-SQL Tuesday LIVE
  • Data Platform Meetup Israel
  • PASS Global Hebrew Virtual Chapter
• Free stuff from Madeira Data Solutions:
  • Free Webinars in Hebrew
  • Madeira Toolbox
  • Blog posts
• Some SQL Server technical stuff:
  • SQL Server Management Studio 18.5
  • How to migrate SQL data to Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Learn Module - Choosing Your Storage Approach in Azure

Eitan does his worst Donald Trump impression, and talks SQL Server stuff with Guy Glantser:

• Ola Hallengren's maintenance solution
• SQL Server Index Maintenance – You’re Doing It Wrong | Sean Gallardy
• Because Your Index Maintenance Script Is Measuring The Wrong Thing | Erik Darling
• How can UPDATE STATISTICS cause HADR disconnections?
• Eitan's File Size Maintenance Solution
• MCSA, MCSD, MCSE certifications retire; with continued investment to role-based certifications
• Azure SQL Managed Instance Performance Considerations | Tim Radney
• Azure Windows VM Sizes
• And more

This episode was recorded on March 8th, at the Microsoft for Startups podcast room in Tel-Aviv

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

After a very long break, today we come to you with a very special show, with a very special announcement to make. You do not want to miss this one!

Guy is back from New Zealand. We talk a little bit about his trip, about things that people shouldn't be doing with SQL Server, and more.

Guy is in New Zealand, so Eitan Blumin comes to fill in. We talk about:

• CI/CD with SSDT
• What is a Canary Query
• The best performance tuning feature, ROI wise
• Hierarchical partitioning
• Azure storage for SQL Server

In this show:

• MySQL, Vertica, Azure Data Explorer and Matan
• 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview 2019
• PASS Summit 2019: Session Schedule
• The Data Bias in Song Contests
• How SQL Server Compares Strings with Trailing Spaces
• Using Azure Data Explorer and Fastly to Improve Taboola Customer Experiences
• Kusto in Taboola – Azure Data Explorer

We had a technical issue with this month’s recording, so instead we’re going back to one of our favorite shows – Big Mistakes with Brent Ozar. Enjoy, and we’ll be back with new stuff in a few weeks.

Among other mistakes, we talk about:

• How did a company end up with a table named “C” Brent’s first database disaster ever
• Why Guy spent two weeks in Microsoft Belfast Fire in the data center
• How does a manager need to respond during a crisis How should you react when you mess up

In this show:

• Multi-Tenant Architecture Optimizations
• Parallel Update Statistics
• What's the Difference between CONTEXT_INFO and SESSION_CONTEXT?
• New Innovations for Analytics in Azure
• Gartner Hype Cycle
• SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio
• SQL Server 2017 Resumable Online Index Rebuilds

Matan is really passionate about Azure Data Explorer. He presented a session about it in the last Data Platform Meetup in Israel. In this show, Matan introduces this powerful analytics platform.

Check it out: Azure Data Explorer