Database Questions from a Cruise Ship off Long Beach

Brent Ozar is setting sail from Long Beach for a week-long retreat to think about the future of the industry, but first he stopped to answer your top-voted questions from pollgab.com/room/brento. Topics range from migrating a 25 TB database to a fresh instance seeded with two years of data, to CDC falling behind under heavy transaction load, to what comes next for reporting now that SSRS isn't shipping in the next SQL Server release. Brent also weighs in on cloud database pricing comparisons, evolving DBA roles, and whether reading all the official documentation is a reasonable goal.