Show 9 – PASS Summit 2014 Recap

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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