Friday Reading 2018-07-27
Phew, I’m not going to complain about the hot weather…I’ll miss it when it’s gone.
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
Good...
2018-07-27
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Creating SQL images in Azure with ACR Build – Part Two
EDIT – 2018-10 – ACR Build is now known as ACR Tasks
In Part One I detailed how we can use ACR Build...
2018-08-09 (first published: 2018-07-25)
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Taking the Linux plunge
I’m a Windows guy.
Kinda have had to be, given my profession as a SQL Server DBA. But recently I’ve become...
2018-07-23
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Friday Reading 2018-07-20
Haven’t posted one of these for a while! It’s good to have some time back to be able to read/write.
I’ve...
2018-07-20
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Creating SQL images in Azure with ACR Build – Part One
Whenever I’ve pushed images up to an Azure Container Registry I’ve been building them locally (using Docker for Windows) and...
2018-07-18
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Downtime
I was speaking at a conference recently and when I bumped into a friend, the first thing she said to...
2018-07-16
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SQL Saturday Cork 2018
This coming weekend (9th of June) is SQL Saturday Cork!
I’ve been really looking forward to this SQL Sat as there’s...
2018-06-04
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Deploying Azure Container Instances
In a previous post I went through how to Push an image to the Azure Container Registry
Now let’s look at...
2018-06-04 (first published: 2018-05-23)
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Pushing SQL Server images to the Azure Container Registry
The Azure Container Registry is an online repository for storing Docker images (think the Docker Hub).
What’s cool about this is...
2018-05-23 (first published: 2018-05-09)
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Loopback available for Windows Containers
The April 2018 update for Windows brought a few cool things but the best one (imho) is that now we...
2018-05-16 (first published: 2018-05-07)
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers