Kimberly Tripp taught me my very first SQL Server course way back on SQL Server 6.0. Jonathan Kehayias and Joe Sack are somewhat new to the team, but their posts reflect their Master's certification ...

You could send SQL and T-SQL commands to it similar to a regular hardware- or VM-based instance of SQL Server. But because it doesn’t need to instantiate the lower-level software the way a VM does, it ...