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Learn what can cause performance regressions after migrating to a new SQL Server version, and how to troubleshoot it.

Learn how to configure the Max Degree of Parallelism and Cost Threshold for Parallelism settings in SQL Server - and about how SQL Server 2014 SP2 and SQL Server 2016 change the way that SQL Server automatically configures some SQL Servers with lots of cores.

You're a Junior or mid-level Database Administrator with no obvious career path. How do you grow the right skills to level up your DBA career?