Time to find a new place to live
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been looking at various different locations around Dublin as my tenancy in the...
2018-01-15
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Friday Reading 2018-01-11
Phew, what a week! Have been looking for a new flat to live so it’s been a bit mad. Have...
2018-01-12
309 reads
Comparing two SQL instances
Last week I was working on a couple of SQL instances that contained databases which were part of an Always...
2018-01-10
477 reads
Roll on 2018!
Hey everyone, hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year!
I took December off from blogging as had started...
2018-01-08
355 reads
Checking SQL Configuration with Pester & Dbatools
I know, I know, there’s loads of different ways to test the configuration of SQL Server but I’ve started playing...
2017-12-13 (first published: 2017-11-29)
1,838 reads
Friday Reading 2017-11-17
Fun week, lots of stuff to organise and prepare for! Whilst I’ve had some downtime I’ve been reading…
Write your first...
2017-11-17
285 reads
Running SQL Server in Kubernetes on Azure Container Services (AKS) II
I’ve previously blogged about running SQL Server in ACS but Microsoft has now released a new version still called Azure...
2017-11-15
985 reads
Blogging for four years!
I find it absolutely amazing that I’ve been writing this blog for four years. My first ever post My 5...
2017-11-13
223 reads
Friday Reading 2017-10-27
Morning all! PASS Summit is coming next week but unfortunately I can’t make it this year. I hope everyone who...
2017-10-27
408 reads
Enabling the SQL Server Agent in Linux Containers
At SQL Saturday Holland a few weeks ago I was (surprise, surprise) chatting about containers and mentioned that I hadn’t...
2017-11-06 (first published: 2017-10-25)
1,749 reads
Blogs
SQL Training Black Friday Deals
By Brian Kelley
If you're looking for particular "Black Friday" deals, here is what I've seen advertised...
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?
By SQLPals
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files? xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a...
Happy Thanksgiving! (USA Holiday)
By Brian Kelley
In the United States, today is Thanksgiving. The intent behind the holiday is to...
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Which Object Definitions Are Available?
For which of these object types can I get the code when I run the OBJECT_DEFINITION() function in SQL Server 2025? (choose 3)
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