Microsoft SQL Server, every mention
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Latent Space 1 
No Priors 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Microsoft SQL Server comes up on the MAD Podcast, Acquired, the a16z Podcast, Cheeky Pint, Top Founders
Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital
- ▶ 45:45 Krishna Mehra But when you look at it, um, you know, let's say the company started with focus on VMware, SQL Server,
Everyone Is Still Undersizing the AI Market | Eric Vishria · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 18:46 Eric Vishria Of course you got Oracle and SQL Server and like, and a whole slew of smaller players like that did really, really well in databases.
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- ▶ 42:17 Jason Calacanis Microsoft Cloud, that includes Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server.
He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- ▶ 7:15 Michel Tricot The moment you start offering something that is on-demand, consumption-based for data, you're opening up a new type of usage for, for data, and it comes from the new families of connectors or systems you need to connect to, because maybe…
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 19:23 Satya Nadella In fact, the combination of, uh, SQL server and R three were successful on both sides.
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 1:02:30 John Collison oh, it's a place you can run your SQL server, and then fully embracing Linux later on and things like that. 4 times in the scene
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
- ▶ 12:33 Satya Nadella You run SQL Server? 2 times in the scene
6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- ▶ 3:26 Viral Bajaria We were on SQL server before, and that thing would never run with the data that was coming in.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 48:28 Steven Sinofsky Yeah, it was, don't build a SQL server, and compete with Oracle directly, and don't build a word processor.
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 10:28 David Kirkos Yeah, today we support MySQL, Microsoft Server, Snowflake, Postgres.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 47:39 Ben Gilbert Which uses SQL Server.
- ▶ 47:41 David Rosenthal SQL Server, all these things.
- ▶ 1:03:33 Steve Ballmer It's related, but new SQL server, for example, was that for a while.
- ▶ 1:18:27 Steve Ballmer We've been doing that with Windows server and SQL server.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
- ▶ 55:29 Sridhar Ramaswamy We have written tools to make it easier to migrate data from a source system, whether it's SQL Server or Oracle.
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- ▶ 14:22 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) One team's still somehow using a SQL server instance.
- ▶ 42:05 Matt Turck You know, that, uh, I saw you, you, uh, write in one of your, one of your posts, uh, which I thought was super interesting, especially, like, in contrast to, like, this whole, you know, titanic fight between Databricks and, and, and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:21 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) I know they, that's where they're going to pitch themselves, but I just tend to see, again, like I referenced earlier, like the migration from SQL Server to Snowflake has worked really well.
Building a $20B+ Open Source Business with MongoDB and Viam's Eliot Horowitz
- ▶ 6:02 Eliot Horowitz Oracle and SQL server and that whole side of it.
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 7:01 Andrew Mason Yeah, so I put out an ad to be a computer consultant for people, like an Apple specialist that was helping people, like, set up their printer and get their camera working, and I started out as a consultant who was writing reports for…
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:39:46 David Rosenthal So, Ben, if you've ever heard of these now sort of strange-sounding Microsoft products, SQL Server, Active Directory, Exchange, Dynamics, SharePoint.
- ▶ 1:42:44 David Rosenthal In 1998, Microsoft takes SQL server, and it was the first real enterprise ready database that can rival IBM and mainframe databases, Oracle databases.
- ▶ 1:43:33 Ben Gilbert You then have NT as the operating system, SQL as the database, and then you've got all these other applications that basically run on that stack.
- ▶ 3:49:40 Ben Gilbert Intelligent Cloud includes SQL Server and Windows Server, so these are big legacy businesses.
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
- ▶ 1:09:04 Daniel Dines In Microsoft, I was working for SQL Server, which is really amazing database engine.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:05:50 Ben Gilbert And all of this stuff is pretty out of scope for this episode, including all the software systems you would need to build for the enterprise, like Windows NT Server and Exchange and SQL Server and Active Directory, like the classic mid-two…
Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:56 Christian Kleinerman SQL server, appliances when appliances were the thing to build and then cloud services.
- ▶ 2:51 Christian Kleinerman At the time, SQL Server was coming from way behind competing with market leaders that were at Oracle and IBM, and the way in was not to have every single feature and capability that those technologies had.
Episode 673 | Lifetime Plans vs Subscriptions, Testing an Idea Wi...
- ▶ 8:42 Rob Walling This is a proven pricing model that Microsoft and Oracle used back when you and I were running dev teams 20 years ago, where we would, before SQL Server was a subscription, you would pay this one-time fee for it. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 23 | With Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
- ▶ 19:45 Frank Slootman You know, an old Cloudera and on and on and on, tons of Oracle, SQL Server.
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 2:43 Dimitri Sirota It could be a SQL server from Oracle or Microsoft.
No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
- ▶ 11:11 Benedict Evans Um, doesn't run, no one's running Windows, Windows SQL server.
A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
- ▶ 1:51 Spencer Kimball IBM DB too, which you'd run on mainframes, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:25 Ben Gilbert Amazon now loves attacking SQL Server licenses and stuff like that, that Microsoft, of course, comes in and audits just like the old guard for.
- ▶ 1:37:46 Ben Gilbert One is that the Windows group just had too much power, and between them and the Windows Server people and the SQL Server people,
Original On-Prem CRM GoldMine Still Does $3.6m in Maintenance Revenue, SaaS Play?
- ▶ 7:45 Paul Peterson And so we shifted to SQL when it was coming out, SQL seven, uh, it was a affordable database.
Fireside Chat: Arjun Narayan (Founder & CEO, Materialize) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 18:00 Arjun Narayan So materialized views have been present in databases, you know, as old as Oracle or SQL Server, um, but they've been very limited in the kinds of queries you could write and the kinds of materialized views we could write.
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- ▶ 20:04 Dan Martell That would say most of our costs went into like six grand of it was Microsoft SQL server access, the mail and the web app ISS as like technologies.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 3:23 Shishir Mehrotra I worked on Office, Windows, and then SQL Server, a wide variety of different projects in lots of different spaces.
1354 Mortgage Lending Software Passes $2m in ARR, Bootstrapped
- ▶ 18:39 Lori Brewer Redgate has SQL server tools that are fabulous.
a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
- ▶ 18:57 Orion Hindawi And then we could give them perfect data on where their vulnerabilities were, but interestingly, we, we could also show them that they had hundreds of copies of SQL Server that were installed that they weren't using, that they were paying… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:51 Ben Horowitz You know, how many, ah, copies of SQL Server that you have that are no good, like, what does that take?
Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 10:56 Mike Tuchen Are you going to take a risk on this new SQL server thing?
3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:57 Ajay Kulkarni Uh, so the, the modern database as we know it started, you know, really back in the 19 seventies with the creation of the first relational database at, at IBM called System R, and it was then commercialized into the first, you know,…
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 27:31 unnamed speaker This is SQL Server on Linux rented through Azure.
1056 DataStax CEO: "We're growing 40% yoy with 110% net revenue expansion"
- ▶ 15:45 Billy Bosworth Therefore, what you, what you require is some initial handholding with your customers, because they're still thinking on old relational paradigms, and when I say relational, that's Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, those kind of things.
Fireside Chat with Bob Muglia, CEO at Snowflake (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 11:07 Matt Turck Uh, you were at Microsoft for 23 years, I believe started as the first technical person on the SQL Server and became the president of the Server and Tools entire division, um, and then left to work with Juniper as VP.
- ▶ 16:40 Bob Muglia Netiza, Teradata, Oracle, Vertica, Greenplum, SQL Server.
A Fireside Chat With MongoDB CTO Eliot Horowitz (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 25:38 Eliot Horowitz Um, so they do this a lot, so for those who don't know, so for example, Amazon has a product called RDS, which is Relational Database Service, and in that they have managed MySQL, managed MariaDB, managed Postgres, even managed Oracle and…
Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 21:45 Emil Eifrem Before Bob says SQL Server.
Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:08 Bob Muglia I was, ah, the first technical guy on SQL Server
Mike Olson, Cloudera // The Cloudera Story (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 12:53 Mike Olson You can think of us in the way that you think of Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM DB II.