VMUG Ireland End of Year Event
This Thursday, November 30th, is the next VMUG Ireland event…our end of year social meetup! We’re going to be down in BrewDog Dublin: – THREE LOCKS SQUARE, 4, DUBLIN...
2023-11-27
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Persisting data for SQL Server on Docker Swarm with Portworx
In my last couple of blog posts (here and here) I talked about how to get SQL Server running in Docker Swarm. But there is one big (and show-stopping)...
2023-09-15 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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Using Secrets in Docker Swarm for SQL Server
In a previous post I went through how to run SQL Server in Docker Swarm and in this post I want to continue delving into the Docker Swarm platform...
2023-08-23 (first published: 2023-08-02)
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Running SQL Server in Docker Swarm
I haven’t touched Docker Swarm for a looooong time but I was asked about running SQL Server in Swarm at a conference a while back…so here’s how it can...
2023-08-14 (first published: 2023-07-26)
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Running SQL Server in a container with sqlcmd
One of the options that I completely missed with the new go-sqlcmd CLI tool is the ability to spin up a container running SQL Server. Let’s have a look...
2023-06-02 (first published: 2023-05-19)
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VMUG Ireland – Belfast
The second VMUG Ireland event of the year is taking place on the 15th of June in Belfast! When: Thursday 15th of June @ 2pm until 5pm Where: Ormeau...
2023-05-16
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EightKB 2023 – Schedule and Registration
The schedule for EightKB 2023 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on May the 24th…here’s the schedule: – N.B. – If you click on the...
2023-04-26
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Video – Recovering data with crash consistent snapshots
A while back I posted a blog on how to recover data with crash consistent snapshots. Snapshots are pretty handy in certain situations so I thought I’d show you...
2023-04-26 (first published: 2023-04-11)
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EightKB Topics
Hello all, I’ve been speaking to various people about EightKB and there does seem to be a misunderstanding out there about the topics of submissions that we are looking...
2023-04-05
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Data Ceili 2023 – Schedule and Registration
Today we have announced the schedule for Data Céilí 2023 and have opened registration! We have two days of great sessions for you, the 8th of June will have...
2023-04-03
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Blogs
Executing One Line in VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote about arrays in PowerShell last week, but I realized one of the...
Friday Flyway Tips–Comparison Options
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked how they could get index changes to be captured in...
A New Word: Guiltwrights
By Steve Jones
giltwrights – n. the imaginary committee of elders that keeps a running log of...
Forums
Lake Database Performance Optimization
I recently created a synapse link for Dataverse. The resultant Lake Database in Synapse...
Selecting from a view, base table has a DENY on a column
This is something I've never seen before and I can't think of the right...
JSON data with Pivoted
Hi All, I need some assistance and not sure how to achieve the expected...
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