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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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
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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Friday Reading 2018-05-04
Phew, busy week. In the middle of updating presentations and making sure demos work!
Here’s a few of the articles...
2018-05-04
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Changing the location of docker named volumes
A few weeks ago I was presenting at SQL Saturday Raleigh and was asked a question that I didn’t know...
2018-05-09 (first published: 2018-05-02)
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Shiny Tech Syndrome
This is the name I give to anyone who, whilst learning a new technology, suddenly thinks it’s the best thing...
2018-04-30
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T-SQL Tuesday #101: My Essential SQL Server Tools
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic comes from Jens Vestergaard (b|t) who is asking us about our essential SQL Server Tools.
I’ve...
2018-04-10
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Blogs
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
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SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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