An Introduction to Conatiners and Docker: Switch to Windows Containers
This is Chris Gibson's second post. This post follows on from his first post called: An Introduction to Containers and...
2017-03-23
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Gethyn Ellis
UK Budget 2017 – The Death Knell for Small Business?
Well I suspect not however I suspect it will likely have a major impact. What has this got to do...
2017-03-21
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An Introduction to SQL Server 2016 Query Store
By David Postlethwaite
David is delivering a talk An Introduction to SQL Server Query Store at SQL Saturday Iceland today - this...
2017-03-18
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An Introduction to Containers and Docker
By Chris Gibson
This is the debut blog post of Chris Gibson. Chris is in expert in Microsoft Windows and is...
2017-03-16
1,480 reads
Do you need a degree to be DBA?
This question gets asked a lot and reoccurs over the years. Do you need a degree to be DBA? I have seen...
2017-03-02
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Permanent Employment v Contracting: How the figures stack up
In my latest learning tree newsletter, I discussed analysing some of the salary survey data that the good folks over...
2017-02-24 (first published: 2017-02-21)
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Valentine's day love from Learning Tree...
The latest course offer is in from Learning Tree!! And It's Valentine's Day!
Learning Tree are showing you the love with...
2017-02-14
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How to Count the Total Number of Rows Across Multiple Tables
I have been working on SQL Server Consulting assignment, a SQL Server 2014 migration for a new client over the...
2017-01-31 (first published: 2017-01-22)
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SQL Server 2008 RTM - Maintenance Plans need Integration Services installed
The tail end of last week was a bit of a throwback week for me. For reasons that I’ll not...
2017-01-31
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Enabling Remote Access to the Dedicated Admin Connection
Recently I was running a health check on one of my clients SQL Servers and I noticed that access to...
2017-01-30
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Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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