The Recording
The Panelists
- Kevin Feasel
- Mala Mahadevan
- Mike Chrestensen
Notes: Questions and Topics
TriPASS Elections
Our TriPASS elections have wrapped up and our intrepid board members have survived for another two-year term.
Mala’s Thoughts on PASS Summit 2024
Mala then talked a bit about her experiences from PASS Summit 2024. She’s been traveling for a bit and this is her first episode back, so we had a chance to catch up with her a bit.
Thoughts on SQL Server 2025
We spent a lot of time this episode on SQL Server 2025, talking about some of the new functionality based on what we heard at Ignite in 2024 and thoughts for how this affects data engineers. Along the way, I generated a cocktail napkin level drawing of how vectorization works and we spent quite a bit of time talking about the new JSON data type and how this is a bit of a reversal from “the XML data type was a mistake and we should just keep JSON in NVARCHAR” thoughts in the past.