Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Azure Data team, which owns the development for all SQL Server versions. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 28+ years on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2012, including Azure SQL. He is a well-known speaker on SQL Server and Azure SQL, often presenting talks on new releases, internals, and specialized topics at events such as PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQL Server and Azure SQL Conference, Microsoft Inspire, Microsoft Ignite, and many different virtual events. You can follow him at @bobwardms. Bob is the author of Apress books: Pro SQL Server on Linux, SQL Server 2019 Revealed, and Azure SQL Revealed.