In this episode, Frank and Andy talk with the legendary Bob Ward.Links Sponsor: Audible.com - Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial!Notable QuotesOn playing the "plague or pollen" game. (02:30) Regarding sportsball... (05:30) Virtual is the new norm. (06:30) Bob and Azure (07:30) Frank caught Bob in person at Microsoft Ready (08:15) On sharing code...(9:30) Bob on SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters (11:00) ... and PolyBase (12:30) "Keep the data where it lives, access it through the language you're familiar with." - Bob on PolyBase (13:48) Regarding Synapse (14:48) ...even for AS/400... (18:20) PolyBase as an incremental migration strategy... (19:30) COBOL, and more COBOL, and Y2K (20:30) "Buck Woody works with me..." - Bob Ward (21:00) An aside about NFL Football teams and rivalries. (23:00) We all miss baseball. (23:50) "Did you find data or did data find you?" (25:00) How Bob was recruited by Microsoft 26 years ago (26:45) Anna Hoffman... (28:15) Bob's Book: SQL Server 2019 Revealed (31:00) "So this Bob Ward guy... he's kinda a big deal..." - Frank (32:45) "I have people like my wife to keep me humble." - Bob (34:00) "There's always somebody smarter..." - Bob (34:45) "The Silverlight apocalypse..." (35:30) "When I'm not working, I enjoy ____." (36:30) Some Good News (37:30) A Quiet Place (38:15) "I think the coolest thing in technology today is ____." (38:45) Bob started at Microsoft in 1993. (40:15) "There's no way somebody is going to put a SQL Server in the cloud." (42:00) FranksWorld.com (42:40) On remote training (44:00) "I look forward to the day when I can technology to ____." (45:30) "IoT-ness" - Bob, circa 2020 (46:40) "Share something different about myself." (48:00) "We're all screwing up!" (49:30) Grace is Greater, by Kyle Idleman (50:20) Bob on LinkedIn (51:30) aka.ms/bobwardms (51:45) aka.ms/sqlworkshops (52:30) Tom Clancy series (53:00) Sherlock Holmes series (54:00) Sherlock - BBC (54:45) "John Krasinski is a great Jack Ryan." - Bob (58:00)Transcript (AI Generated)Hello and welcome to data driven,thepodcast where we explore the emergingfield of data science. We bring the best mindsin data, software, engineering, machine learning and artificial intelligence.Now hear your hosts Frank Lavignaand Andy Leonard. Hello and welcome back to data driven.The podcast or we explore the emerging fields of datascience,machine learning and artificial intelligence.If you like to think of data as the newoil,then you can consider as well like Car Talk andwith me on his epic road trip down.The information superhighway is Andy Leonard.Although. I think we are now currently in
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