Not all of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long-winded responses.
Brandon: Do you seen a rise in json queries to address impedance mismatch between data/objects? I struggled with EF to produce a query that was neither simple nor complicated against a properly designed db (according to 2 experts). Dropped EF; used json query in stored proc; it was magic.
No.
Rufus: What are the best ways to determine if two large query plans have the same shape?
Put them side by side in SSMS and zoom out.
Stan Redman: What is your opinion of the SQL force encryption setting?