Once again it’s on! We hope you enjoy this fourth episode of the Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes Blog Series, where you’re getting a peak into workings of the SQL Server Engineering Team with previously unheard stories from team members as they developed and tested SQL Server 2012. The first three episodes can be viewed here and don’t forget to download The Fantastic 12 of SQL Server 2012 (PDF) to follow along with all 12 episodes. |

This week we have Joe Yong, Senior Program Manager, whose teams in Redmond and Shanghai worked on the upgrade and migration capabilities of SQL Server 2012. Joe tells a story of the team working with their first Technical Adoption Program (TAP) customer during the very early builds of SQL Server 2012 that wanted to test something in the SQL Server Labs. They came in and loaded up their data, which included a 100GB trace file, which the team had never encountered. Watch the video below to find out what happened!

The Fantastic 12 of #SQL2012 Twitter Contest happens every Thursday at 10:30am PT, where we’re giving away the cool new SQL Server T-Shirts that the SQL Family selected. 

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Stay tuned for the next episode of this series coming every Thursday through the end of June 2012. Get more information on SQL Server 2012 and download the free trial today.