{"id":1173,"date":"2014-04-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/2014\/04\/24\/sql-server-2014-and-the-dba-building-bridges\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:48:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:48:57","slug":"sql-server-2014-and-the-dba-building-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2014\/04\/24\/sql-server-2014-and-the-dba-building-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2014 and the DBA: Building Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"<\/a>Guest blog post by<\/strong>:\u00a0SQL Server MVP Denise McInerney \u2013 Vice President of Marketing for PASS and a Data Engineer at Intuit \u2013 began her career as a SQL Server DBA in 1998 and now applies her deep understanding of data to enable analytic solutions to business problems. She is founder of the PASS Women in Technology virtual chapter, a speaker at user group meetings and conferences, and blogs at select*from denisemc.views<\/a>. You can follow her on Twitter at @denisemc06<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The iconic Golden Gate Bridge was a great image for promoting last week\u2019s live webcast<\/a> celebrating the launch of SQL Server 2014. Of course, it represents San Francisco, where Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, COO Kevin Turner, and Data Platform Group CVP Quentin Clark took the stage to highlight the new release\u2019s features<\/a>. But I think it\u2019s also a metaphor for what the new capabilities foretell for SQL Server DBAs.<\/p>\n

From the much-anticipated In-Memory OLTP engine (formerly code-named Hekaton) \u2013 with its promise of dramatically reducing I\/O traffic jams and speeding application performance \u2013 to the new high-performance updateable columnstore index and enhanced scalability through improved <\/b>Windows Server 2012 integration, much of the SQL Server 2014 message is about helping us build better, stronger, faster data-processing bridges.<\/p>\n

But with the release\u2019s integration of AlwaysOn Availability Groups with Windows Azure, smart SQL Server backup to a Windows Azure URL, and integration with the new Power BI for Office 365 cloud solution, we\u2019re also talking about bridging our database capabilities \u2013 and technical skills \u2013 to the cloud and further into the data analytics world.<\/p>\n

What does all this mean for us as SQL Server professionals? More than ever, our organizations need us to be an essential part of the team: bridging IT and business, better connecting data and the people who use it to make decisions, and adding value by building strong and flexible solutions custom-fit for our company\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n

As we prepare for this changing world of data, here are three areas to focus on:<\/p>\n