Running a SQL Server container from scratch
I’ve been interested (obsessed?) with running SQL Server in containers for a while now, ever since I saw how quick and easy it was to spin one up. That...
2021-05-24 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMVs at GroupBy Americas 2021
On Tuesday I'm looking forward to presenting again at GroupBy Americas on a topic that was voted on by the attending public. This presentation "SQL Server Admin Best Practices...
2021-05-24
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The Best of Both Worlds: WordPress.com Managed Hosting
How you can get the total freedom to create without the hassles that come with managing your own website. The open source WordPress project has given the world a...
2021-05-24
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A New Road Ahead…
Where I’ve Been Since January 1, 2012 I’ve been the principal consultant at Centino Systems. Jokingly, I refer to myself as The Centino of Systems. I learned a lot...
2021-05-22
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A New Road Ahead…
Where I’ve Been Since January 1, 2012 I’ve been the principal consultant at Centino Systems. Jokingly, I refer to myself as The Centino of Systems. I learned a lot...
2021-05-22
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Career: Talk To References
As we try to get through these strange times in the world, I am starting to see a bit more career movement in 2021 than I saw for much...
2021-05-21 (first published: 2021-05-14)
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Daily Coping 21 May 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-05-21
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Encryption in SQL Server #1 – Column Level Encryption
For one reason or another data security and encryption has been coming up quite a bit in my day to day work recently and I’ve started to realise that...
2021-05-21 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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SQL Server Collations: What does “CP1” mean in “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS”?
(last updated: 2021-05-31 @ 19:00 EST / 2021-05-31 @ 23:00 UTC ) Many of us that work with Microsoft SQL Server, especially those of us working on systems with...
2021-05-21
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Daily Coping 20 May 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-05-20
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Blogs
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
Start with the FabricTools PowerShell module
By Kamil
Managing Microsoft Fabric at scale quickly becomes painful if you rely only on the...
Enterprise AI Operating Rhythm – Top 5 practices for 2026
2025 exposed a growing gap between AI ambition and operational reality. As budgets tightened...
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Celebrating Tomorrow
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