Upcoming speaking events
Back in March I did my first “feature length” presentation at SQL Saturday Iceland
At that point I’d done a few...
2017-09-04
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Friday Reading 2017-09-01
Going to be a busy few weeks as conference season gets into full swing. Really looking forward to the next...
2017-09-01
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Running SQL Server in Kubernetes on Azure Container Services
I’ve been meaning to get to grips with Kubernetes for a while now but I have to admit, I was...
2017-08-30
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Monday Coffee: Follow the instructions
Last week I was working on an upgrade and ran into a few issues. Whilst waiting for the company’s support...
2017-08-28
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Friday Reading 2017-08-25
Great week this week as I’ve been selected to speak at 4 of the SQL Relay events in October! Really...
2017-08-25
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Monday Coffee: Posting error messages
I posted a couple of messages on twitter over the weekend giving any new bloggers advice that was given to...
2017-08-21
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Query Store functionality in earlier versions of SQL Server
One of the best features introduced in SQL Server 2016 was the Query Store. Having the ability to see which...
2017-08-19
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Friday Reading 2017-08-18
Cool week, I’ve been selected to present at SQL Saturday Holland & SQL Saturday Denmark this year. September and October are...
2017-08-18
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Attaching databases via a dockerfile
Last week I presented my session on SQL Server & Containers for the PASS Virtualization Group and during my prep I...
2017-08-28 (first published: 2017-08-16)
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Monday Coffee: Time Off
Nice to be back after a week off. I’ve been writing three posts a week (sometimes more) since the beginning...
2017-08-14
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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