Technology Flows Downstream

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral

• Azure SQL database
• SQL Server

The technologies that we see in other data platform products sometimes flow to SQL Server.

Using VMware VMDKs for SQL Server Database Cloning

• by Paul Stanton

• SQLServerCentral

• VMWare
• WinDocks

Learn how you can clone a database with a VMDK virtual disk to store your data.

Creating Your First SQL Server Docker Container in macOS

• by Additional Articles

• SimpleTalk

• Containers

The use of macOS by developers and IT professionals has gained popularity the past few years. Running a sandboxed SQL Server, however, has been difficult. That changed when Microsoft made SQL Server images on Docker available. In this article, Carlos Robles explains how to get started with Docker when running macOS.

How to provision realistic and compliant data to dev – free whitepaper

• by Site Owners

• Redgate

• provisioning

Compare common approaches to provisioning test data to database development teams, and assess how they stack up in terms of delivering realistic test data, managing bottlenecks, and meeting data privacy regulations.

An Alert Philosophy

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral

• Database Administration
• Monitoring

Many of you reading this will be responsible in some way for managing a system. This might be a test/development system or a production one, but often you want to know how well the system is working. Or maybe you want to know if the system is working at all. Even developers care if their […]

Stairway to SQL Server Virtualization Level 3 - Building the Ideal VMware-based SQL Server Virtual Machine

• by David Klee

• SQLServerCentral.com

In this level of the Stairway to SQL Server Virtualization David looks at the ideal virtual machine setup for a SQL Server instance on VMware.

Free eBook: SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP

• by Press Release

• Redgate

• ebook

In this free eBook, Kalen Delaney explains how Microsoft's 2016 In-memory OLTP engine works. In her book, learn how to use lock- and latch-free data structures to allow non-blocking data processing, and find out how to migrate existing tables to Hekaton.

SandDance in Azure Data Studio

• by Additional Articles

• MSSQLTips.com

• Azure Data Studio

In this tip we look at how to use SandDance a powerful data visualization tool that is an extension to Azure Data Studio.

Segments for Protection

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral

• Security

Computer network security is important, and it's something we ought to be more concerned with as data professionals.

SQL Server Agent for SQL Express on Linux

• by Thom Andrews

• SQLServerCentral

• SQL Server on Linux

This article will show you how to use crontab to schedule tasks that you want to run on a SQL Server on Linux instance when no Agent is configured.