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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Event Organisers

Over the last few weeks I’ve spoken at a few conferences, the last of those being SQL Relay.
For those of...

Limiting resources available to containers

One question that I get asked regularly is, “can you limit the host resources to individual containers?”
This is a great...

Monday Coffee: Long hours worked

Last week I asked the following question on twitter: –

I had a load of responses from a lot of DBAs...

Friday Reading 2017-09-29

Another busy week almost over and today I’m heading to Utrecht for SQL Saturday Holland! Never been to Utrecht before...