Steve Jesok came and repeated a session he did at MMS in Miami about the 20 things he learned using CM in a large environment.
MMS 2023 Miami Beach Edition: 20 Things I Learned Managing a Large Mic... (sched.com)
We'll post his slides here as soon as we get them.
We had a good talk during and after the session too. Rob Hastings mentioned that SQL Server doesn't make use of any optimizer hotfixes from a CU unless you tell SQL to use it. Basically, set it like this:
ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION
SET QUERY_OPTIMIZER_HOTFIXES = ON
Harjit Dhaliwal joined after dinner and shared a bunch of links regarding Ignite. Here they all are: