Bob Ward on SQL, Faith, and the Dallas Cowboys

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 lock downso that road ship and has been postponed.It has and wow what a you knowwhat an interesting time to live in right Frank.Right right, we are recording this on April 15th.You know it's serious when even the government postpones taxcollection.True, yeah today would have been the day that yourtaxes were doing US,but they pushed it back.I forgot three months formonths whatever. Yeah, yeah, three months,but it's in Julies coming up on my birthday.That's how I remember it.Like I need another paper.They give it kind of.Yeah exactly, but you know it's been an interesting dayhere.This I live in Virginia.You know? This uh, FarmVille,VA Ann. I imagine you may have gotten different weatherthan I did,even a little more odd for this time of year.This late in spring. It is extremely odd to have,uh, you know, an overnight temperature in the 30s.Not only that, but we saw flurries this morning.I believe this is the latest I've ever seen.Snow flurries. Just crazy.Well, you're at a higher elevation.I think I know. Western Maryland had some snow overnighttoo,so.It could be definitely could be,yeah. It's hilly here where I am.I'm a little little East of themountains. OK, but it isallergy season so we're having just loads of fun herewith that.How's things going with you Frank?How's the family well? Well,we'redoing good. We're allsequestered together, and Fortunately I don't live in New YorkCity anymore.In a small apartment. Otherwise,I think I probably would've lost my mind by now.Wow, yeah we my have allergies,and I think my older son is developing allergies,so we're playing the plague or pollen game.And so terriblegame to play, isn't it?Especially when you're outside.It's like, although I found that wearing kind of likeface masks and stuff does help the sneezing and actuallyin watery eyes.So yeah,actually does so.Yeah, I I.It's funny like I watch TV now and they showold clips or something andI'm like they're sitting too close together.And that's the truth. I've seen it.I'vekind of noticed that too.Soenough about enoughabout the stuff that'sgoing on with that. I have an announcement,Frank.What's your nationality? I amso excited about this. My 17 year old son StevieRay has been selected to present at SQL Saturday.Richmond is going to be a virtual event at nearlythe last Saturday of April to 25th.He came to me about a year ago.He's been going to these things with me for overhalf his life and he came to him 10 monthsa year ago and says I want to do oneof these. I think I can do a presentation.How do I go about it and I said,well? You know, pick something shiny as a topic.And he actually doubled up on that.He is presenting on how to install SQL Server 2017.On on Linux, running on a π three a RaspberryPi 3.And I was like, you know,you could have picked something hardermaybe. No, but he worked on this and it's been.I wouldestimate he's got 4 or 500 hours on it.I helped him out as much as I could withyou.Know like technical stuff, but I was mostly kind ofstanding back just to see if he was going todo this and he beat through it.Frank and he got it to work nice and rightafter that he put together.I think so too and I'm so excited we're I'mpresenting in the first slot a week from Saturday.He's presenting in a second right behind me and inthat same channel so.I just I'm so proud of him.You know these proud Papa moments,right? You gotta eat.These are totally, totally. I'llnever forget the day my.He was nine at the time he went.He was over to play date a friends house andhe fixed their router.So yeah,now soproud that's awesome. Well, Speakingof Speakingof being Super Smartand probably at a youngage to we are we are very honored today tohave.I'm going to say the Bob Ward on the showtoday as our guest.Bob works for Microsoft. He doesn't awful lot of speakingat the major major conferences is usually on the bigstage and in the big room.And doing keynotes and stuff.The only bad thing I think I can say aboutBob is I've seen him at the past summit afew times wearing a Dallas Cowboys Jersey.Goodness, gracious Bob. I don't know whatto say about that, but.Will will let you select.I'll confess, I'm aRedskins fan an you know,understand because I'lladmit it now. Onrecording, you know at least you're not an Eagles fans.Ican, you know, Redskins. Was this rivalry from years agoin the 70s right now?Not so much for us.It's the Eagles pretty much so.If you're an Eagles fan,I might have todrop off the call right now.But it it please I if you do not knowwhoBob Ward is Gogo, checking out,popping his name into you know into your favorite searchengine and check him out in my favorite search engineactually is is Bing so I can say that,but he's a lot of talks about data you doa lot of free webinars.You do a lot of speaking an you know youdo more than just talk about this.I know you're engaged with the future of SQL Server.And the data products I want to Azure and we'rejust honored...