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Meet the Hosts
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Carlos Chacon
Director of Data Solutions at Marathon, Founder of SQL Data Partners Podcast, Organizer + Sponsor, SQL Trail
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Eugene Meidinger
Senior Data Solutions and Power BI Consultant, Pluralsight Author
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Kevin Feasel
Proprietor, Catallaxy Services, LLC, Data & AI Specialist, Author
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Podcast Episodes
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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.
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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.
Episode 24
Query Store
December 30, 2015
35 minutes
Guest Borko Novakovic, Microsoft Program Manager, discusses how the new Query Store feature will help you access the performance history of your databases.
Episode 23
IO, IO, It's Off to Tune We Go
December 23, 2015
29 minutes
Guest Theresa Iserman, Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, talks about how you can put yourself in the drivers seat by taming the IO situation .
Episode 22
Eight Years of sp_whoisactive
December 16, 2015
31 minutes
Guest Adam Machanic, independent SQL Server consultant, chats about sp_whoisactive in SQL Server and why you should go and download it right now.
Episode 21
Azure Data Factory
December 09, 2015
31 minutes
Guest Reza Rad, Microsoft MVP, discusses some of the similarities and differences between new offering Azure Data Factory and SSIS.
Episode 20
The Role of Mentors
December 02, 2015
35 minutes
SQL Data Partners Podcast host Carlos chats with fellow podcasters about their experience with mentors and the characteristics they think good mentors have.
Episode 19
How Solid State Drives Can Help SQL Server
November 25, 2015
34 minutes
Guests Justin Strong and Ananda Sankaran talk about their experiences with SSD and how organizations are using them in their environments.
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