The document details insights from the PASS Summit 2019, including keynotes on SQL Server 2019 and data virtualization. It features takeaways from various speakers on topics such as diversity in data and cloud database management. The document encourages participation in a 2020 survey on database DevOps.

1. What We Learned at
PASS Summit 2019

2. Today’s panel
Kathi Kellenberger
Advocate and Simple
Talk Editor
Microsoft MVP
Grant Fritchey
Advocate
Microsoft MVP
President of PASS
Scary DBA
Steve Jones
Advocate and
SQLServerCentral Editor
Microsoft MVP
Kendra Little
Advocate
Microsoft MVP, MCM
Corgi enthusiast

3. What we
learned at SQL
in the City
Seattle

4. What we learned
at “Architecting
Successful
Database
Changes”

5. What we heard
from customers in
the
Redgate Castle
🏰 🏰 🏰

6. What we learned
from the Day 1
Keynote

7. Unmatched Price-Performing & Limitless
Capabilities Wherever Your Data Lives
with Rohan Kumar
• SQL from Edge to Cloud
• SQL Server 2019 GA
• Intelligent Query Processing
• Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
• Azure Arc
• Azure Synapse

8. Accelerated Database Recovery and
Resumable operations with Pam Lahoud
• ADR is in STANDARD EDITION!
• Faster reboots
• Fast rollbacks
• Uses space in SQL Server database
• Versioning can be used for snapshot / RCSI if using

9. Passion award
winner: our partner
and friend, Hamish
Watson

10. “When I look at this
room, I see people
who don’t know
they are diplomats”
Tarah Wheeler

11. Data virtualization in SQL Server 2019 with
James Rowland-Jones
• Query Oracle via SQL Server TSQL
• Read scenarios today – no writeback
• Create External Tables in SQL Server
• Driver converts to allowed language at the source

12. WIT lunch
with LaShana
Lewis
https://www.lmlewisconsulting.com/

13. LaShana’s takeaways
1. You don’t have to be a D&I expert to make a difference –
get started now!
2. Your skills with data can shine light on diversity
3. Use data to drive organizational goals – identify metrics the
company pays attention to
4. Use data to understand what could be (not just what exists)
5. If you don’t have data use free resources such as the
Implicit Bias test

14. Amazon Aurora with Tobias Ternstrom
• MySQL & PostgreSQL compatible relational db
• Built for cloud
• Perf and availability of commercial grade db at
1/10th cost
• Delivered as managed service

15. What we
learned at
Speaker Idol

16. What did YOU learn at
PASS Summit?
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