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.
