An episodic conversation about solving problems within the Microsoft data platform. We combine trending topics and professional development to keep you easily informed and entertained.
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Meet the Hosts

Carlos Chacon
Director of Data Solutions at Marathon, Founder of SQL Data Partners Podcast, Organizer + Sponsor, SQL Trail

Eugene Meidinger
Senior Data Solutions and Power BI Consultant, Pluralsight Author

Kevin Feasel
Proprietor, Catallaxy Services, LLC, Data & AI Specialist, Author
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Podcast Episodes

Episode 33
Moving From The Developer Role to the DBA Role
March 02, 2016
29 minutes
Guest Amy Herold, SQL Server consultant, shares her tips from the trenches about making the move from development to database administration.

Episode 32
Level Up Your Game With PowerShell
February 24, 2016
31 minutes
Guest Mike Fal, Senior SQL Server DBA, chats about how PowerShell isn't just a Windows Administration tool and ways data pros can use it.

Episode 31
What Has Virtualization Done To My Database?
February 17, 2016
31 minutes
Guest David Klee, SQL Server, virtualization, and infrastructure consultant, discusses how as database administrators, we have to live with virtualization.
Episode 30
The Best Investment You Can Make
February 10, 2016
30 minutes
Guest Bruce Van Horn, Life, Leadership, and Business Coach, talks about how the most important investment you should make is the investment in yourself.

Episode 29
Are You Thinking What SQL Server is Thinking?
February 03, 2016
30 minutes
Guest Brent Ozar, SQL Server expert, talks about the differences between how we would get data out of the database and how SQL Server does it.

Episode 28
How Do You Know There Is A Problem? Baselines!
January 27, 2016
33 minutes
Guest Erin Stellato, Principal SQL Consultant, talks about the importance of having a baseline to help us with performance issues, system changes and more.

Episode 27
Testing Changes Before You Break Production
January 20, 2016
31 minutes
Guest Melody Zacharais chats about how using Distributed Replay can help you with tuning and assessing the impact of future upgrades.
Episode 26
Devops for the Database--Everyone is Doing it, Right?
January 13, 2016
27 minutes
Guest Cindy Bean, Customer Success Manager, discuses DevOps for the database. The developers have this down to a science, and now it is the database’s turn.

Episode 25
Stretch Database
January 06, 2016
33 minutes
Guest Anthony van Gemert, Microsoft Product Manager, discusses the new Stretch Database feature and how it uses both the on-prem instance and Azure platform.
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