Show 6 – It’s the Cursor

It’s the monthly all-over-the-place version of the show, and this time we have a mix of various topics like the cloud, T-SQL development, performance, SQL Server 2014, events and presentation skills. We also have some more mystery around the Non-Blocking Sort issue from earlier shows. More specifically, we talk about: Is the cloud a threat or opportunity for DBAs? The ways to pass a list of values to a Stored Procedure The distribution of installations between SQL Server versions Non-Blocking Sort – Is there a hidden Iterator that helps it? Various presentations worth watching The new SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator And more..   Items mentioned in the show: Guy Glantser – DBA in the Cloud: Threat or Opportunity? Adam Machanic – SQLCLR String Splitting Part 2: Even Faster, Even More Scalable Erland Sommarskog – Arrays and Lists in SQL Server 24 Hours of Pass Summit Preview Edition Julie Koesmarno – “I Want It NOW!” Data Visualization with Power View Kalen Delaney – In-Memory OLTP Internals: How is a 30x Performance Boost Possible? 24 Hours of Pass Portuguese Edition 24 Hours of Pass SQL Server 2014 Edition Sunil Agarwal – SQL Server 2014: In-Memory OLTP for Database Administrators Sunil Agarwal – Columnstore Technical Deep Dive Jimmy May – Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014: Flipping the DW Faster Bit SQLSaturday Israel Aaron Bertrand – Tricks to play on your DBA Madeira Course – What’s New in SQL Server 2014?