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On this show, we host a good friend of both of us – Boris Hristov!

Boris (blog | twitter) is a SQL Server MVP from Bulgaria and a really passionate and efficient guy. He delivers a lot of technical training and also talks a lot about presentation design. We talk to Boris about those things and also about travelling, sports, work-life balance, and more.

Among other topics, we talk to Boris about:

• Boris’ community initiative, SQL Hangouts
• What is Policy Based Management and why is it so important?
• How can you use Distributed Replay in your environment?
• The importance of presentation design
• Data corruption
• Efficiency
• What is Tapout XT

Items mentioned in the show:

• SQL Hangouts
• Guy Glantser on SQL Hangouts about founding a company and work-life balance
• Matan Yungman (with William Durkin) on SQL Hangouts about transitioning from DBA to consultant
• Boris Hristov – Presentation Design – Why You Should Care?
• Boris Hristov courses on Pluralsight

About Boris

Boris is a SQL Server Consultant and Pluralsight Author from Bulgaria who you can regularly see speaking at conferences all across Europe. He is also training companies and students in the “Art of SQL Server” and loves to share his knowledge online as part of podcasts, webcasts or on his blog – http://borishristov.com/blog/.

The fastest way you can reach him is on twitter where he writes under @BorisHristov and you can even join him for a SQLHangout which are video conversations that he hosts with people from the SQL Server community.

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A few shows ago, we talked briefly about Virtualization and mentioned it would be a good idea to have a Virtualization expert on the show.

In this show, we have David Klee (Blog | Twitter), one of the top Virtualization experts in the SQL Server space.

We talk to David about:

• What’s important to know when virtualizing SQL Server
• How to properly size your VM
• What metrics to monitor when virtualizing
• When to use SQL Server High Availability features and when to use them at the virtualization side
• When NOT to virtualize
• Some of David’s most challenging projects

In addition, we talk to David about starting a company and the life of an independent consultant.

About David

David is a technologist that is lucky enough to have a job doing that which he enjoys – working in high technology, using cutting edge technology to make businesses more efficient. He is the Founder and Chief Architect of Heraflux Technologies, and travels around the country working with companies to reduce risk, improve performance, and virtualize their business-critical SQL Server infrastructures.
David regularly contributes to the PASS Virtualization, Performance, and High Availability and Disaster Recovery virtual chapters. David also helps to run and coordinate the Omaha SQL Server Users Group.

David is also a member of the PASS High Availability and Disaster Recovery Virtual Chapter board. The virtual chapter meets the second Tuesday of each month for a one hour technical presentation on high availability and disaster recovery topics.

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On this show, we host Niko Neugebauer, a.k.a “Mr Columnstore”!.

On this very fun conversation, we talk to Niko about his various roles and activities, about the improvements Microsoft is making version after version, about SQL Server 2016, and of course, about Columnstore.

Among other topics, we cover:

• What people need to know about Columnstore
• How to use Columnstore the right way
• Columnstore and In-Memory OLTP improvements in SQL Server 2016

 

About Niko

Niko Neugebauer is a Software Designer, living in Portugal.

In the recent years he’s being fascinated by data (big and small) and its analysis.

Niko also likes to write about Clustered Columnstore Indexes and SQL Server.

Niko founded and leads the Portuguese SQL Server User Group , and he’s the head of the organization committee for the SQLSaturday events in Portugal.

He works as a BI Consultant for OH22, where he creates intelligent solutions for Business with a focus on Data Quality.

Niko presents on the topics of Microsoft Data Platform around the world at SQLSaturdays, SQLBits, PASS Summit, User Groups and local events such as Microsoft BI Conference in Portugal.

He loves the human-computer interaction, and adores design, but most of all – he enjoys making technology to make life easier, and people more connected with each other.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/webcaravela
Twitter: http://twitter.com/NikoNeugebauer