Tim Radney (@tradney) of SQLskills talks about the initial differences he has encountered while mastering the art of performance tuning Azure SQL Database.
SQL Server 2016 RC0 introduces a new native string splitting function, STRING_SPLIT. Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) compares its performance to existing methods.
SQL Server 2016 allows you to enable instant file initialization during installation; Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) looks at how this can impact tempdb data file creation.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) shares some insight about early changes to Plan Explorer that help to provide you with the most accurate information we can.
