1. PASS Community News August 2015

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6. SQL 2016 New Features  Speak BIO Lindsey is Principal Group Program Manager for SQL Server core engine, responsible for SQL Server 2016 release. Prior, she was architect and manager of Azure Data Customer Advisory Team focusing on end to end system design (logical and physical) and optimization for scalability, availability, resiliency and performance. In the 20 years working at Microsoft, Lindsey architected and optimized some of the largest and most complex SQL Server mission critical installations in the world.