Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) of SQL Sentry gives some quick advice about SQL Server 2014 CTP1: Plan to install it in its own virtual machine, because at this point it doesn't play well with others.
SQLskills.com's Joe Sack (@josephsack) discusses some of the assumptions people can make when deciding on high availability / disaster recovery solutions they're going to use with SQL Server.
Glenn Berry (@GlennAlanBerry) of SQLskills.com discusses all of the recent hoopla about Database Mirroring being deprecated and what that may mean for Standard Edition customers 6-10 years from now.
SentryOne's Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) discusses a few additional places to get information useful for decisions about creating new indexes that are suggested as "missing" by various tools.
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) of SQLskills.com discusses the myth that DROP and TRUNCATE operations are not logged, and shows that this is simply not true.
Wanted to give a heads-up about some of the sessions we're presenting at PASS Summit, some great pre-conference seminars, and a contest you'll really want to consider entering in June and July.
Jonathan Kehayias (@SQLPoolBoy) of SQLskills.com takes a look at snapshot performance, with some surprising observations about what happens if you have more than one concurrent snapshot.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) talks about a subtle way that ad hoc queries can interfere with SQL Server performance by taking up more space in the plan cache than they really need.
