Bob Ward is a principal architect for the Microsoft Azure Data Server team, which owns the development for all SQL Server versions. He has worked for Microsoft for more than 27 years on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2019, including Azure SQL. Bob is a well-known speaker on SQL Server, often presenting talks on new releases, internals, and performance at events such as PASS Summit, Red Hat Summit, Microsoft //build, SQLBits, SQLIntersection, Microsoft Inspire, and Microsoft Ignite. You can follow him at @bobwardms and linkedin.com/in/bobwardms. Bob is the author of the Apress books Pro SQL Server on Linux and SQL Server 2019 Revealed.