In this podcast from the November SQL PASS Conference in Seattle, David DeWitt discusses how his career in database research led to becoming a Microsoft Technical Fellow in the Data and Storage group. DeWitt describes his connection with the Madison project and the topic he explored in his keynote at PASS--parallel computing.

To learn more about the database research DeWitt leads in Madison, WI, read Microsoft Partners with the University of Wisconsin, Madison to Open Database Lab.

In this podcast from the SQL PASS Summit, I spoke with technical experts and executives from Quest about industry trends affecting SQL Server. We ranged over a number of topics including SQL developer tools, the growth of SQL Server, the move of SQL Server to the cloud as a part of the Azure platform, the pros and cons of SQL Virtualization, and the new Quest SQL wiki, called SQLServerPedia.

Participating in the roundtable were Billy Bosworth, Quest SQL Server VP & GM, Kevin Kline, SQL Server MVP (and Former president of PASS),Brent Ozar, Domain Expert, and Douglas Chrystall, Quest SQL Server CTO.

For more on SQL Server cloud computing see:

Cloud Computing: How Will It Affect Corporate IT

Cloud Computing Comes to SQL Server