Stairway to Database Containers Level 3: Building Custom Container Images by Hand

In this next level of the Stairway to Database Containers learn how to customer a container and save the changes to a new image.

SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024–Resources

For my talk at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024, here are the resources. Slides: Architecting Zero Downtime.pptx GitHub: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime If you have questions, reach out.

A New Word: Vicarous

vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were in your shoes, eager to watch another actor put their own spin on the character...

Internal Checkpoints

T-SQL Tuesday #176: One piece of advice for Past Steve

I almost missed this month, so this is also a good #SQLNewBlogger post. I thought about it for a few minutes as I ate breakfast at my desk and...

SQL Server on Linux Restrictions

Thinking About Technology

Steve is thinking about technology today, inspired by a developer/architect that asks some philosophical and moral questions of software.

THAT Conference 2024 in Wisconsin Dells

I’m headed back to Wisconsin Dells next week for THAT! Conference 2024. This is my second time in Wisconsin and third THAT overall. This time I didn’t submit, but...

Monday Monitor Tips – Adding Redgate Monitor Custom Metrics from SQLMonitorMetrics

This post talks about adding custom metrics from the sqlmonitormetrics.com site automatically and how this works (and how it doesn’t). This is part of a series of posts on...

Set a Runtime Variable in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Note: I DO NOT recommend this. Any changes to a pipeline should be in code and through a PR. That being said, I know this information is out there...