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...

The docker kill command

When running demos and experimenting with containers I always clear down my environment. It’s good practice to leave a clean...

An analytical mind

Last week I was reading this article in which a Professor argues that students should be allowed to take smartphones...

Monday Coffee: Should I learn powershell?

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday’s topic was set by Rob Sewell (b|t) and entitled Let’s all get PoSH
It had a massive...

Friday Reading 2017-09-15

Excited for next week as I’m heading down to Cork to speak at the User Group there. Over 3 years...

Creating Hyper-V VMs with Powershell

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Rob Sewell (b|t) and surprise, surprise, it focuses on Powershell so I thought...

Friday Reading 2017-09-08

It’s going to be a fun weekend as it’s SQLSaturday Cambridge tomorrow! Haven’t been to this event before, it looks...