Compressed backup errors and TF 3042

Compressing your backups has very few downsides. It’s usually faster (the additional time for compression is less than the time...

Return to Birmingham for SQLSaturday Bham 2017!

It's been 2.5 years since I last spoke atSQLSaturday Birmingham, and I'm eager to make a return, this time with...

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...

Create a BACPAC–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

The Livestream Product Launch

SQL in the City Streamed in 2016 was a success, with lots of feedback that people enjoyed the sessions and...

PolyBase use cases clarified

I previously talked about PolyBase and its enhancements (see PASS Summit Announcements: PolyBase enhancements).  There is some confusion on PolyBase use...

Webinar – Datacenter Madness – Application Altercation

I hope you all can join me for an upcoming webinar as part of theDatacenter Madness webinar series, presented by...

Corrupt Database – I need that data now!

My database is in the recovery pending state and I want to get in and extract the data out into...

Summary of my Container Series

I’ve written a few articles on containers so I thought it’d be a good idea to have a page that...

Availability group replica murdered in cold blood by WSFC

This problem was first flagged by a daily operational validation test I wrote using everything in my recent webinar to...