Tim Radney (@tradney) of SQLskills shows us how the Stretch Database feature has evolved from its early CTP beginnings to the RTM version released earlier this month.
Rob Farley (@rob_farley) looks at information exposed in query plans about residual predicates and actual rows read, showing how Plan Explorer helps identify the issue.
Jonathan Kehayias (@SQLPoolBoy) takes a closer look at a new trace flag that allows you to process multiple concurrent statistics updates on the same table.
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 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.
