The Recording
The Panelists
- Kevin Feasel
- Mala Mahadevan
- Mike Chrestensen
Notes: Questions and Topics
The Night before Ignite (and PASS Summit)
We briefly talked about how PASS Summit and Microsoft Ignite were both kicking off, but no news had leaked yet. Since then, we learned about the release of SQL Server 2025.
SQL Server and Automatic Indexing of Foreign Key Constraints
Next up, we talked about SQL Server Management Studio 22 going GA last week. Rob Farley showed it off during the TriPASS meeting, and I spent some time walking through Vlad Drumea’s blog post on configuring SSMS 22.
Along the way, someone in chat asked about running SSMS on MacOS and Parallels. At the time, I said I wasn’t sure but it seemed the answer was no. Since then, I saw this post by Randolph West on how to run SSMS 22 on MacOS Tahoe. It seems that it is possible, though not perfectly.
ETL and ELT Tooling
Mala wanted to get some recommendations on ETL (or ELT) tooling. I walked through a Datacamp article on the topic and we talked a bit about some of the tooling options available. Admittedly, I don’t do as much data movement as I used to, so this was more of a “research and report” type of topic, mixed in with a few observations of the tools that I have used in that space.