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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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
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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Friday Reading 2017-08-04
It’s a bank holiday weekend here in Ireland so I’m looking forward to having the extra day off. Bought a...
2017-08-04
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Automating installation of Docker & SQL command line tools on Linux
I’ve been getting to grips with Docker SQL Containers on Linux (specifically Ubuntu 16.04) and have found that I’ve been...
2017-08-03
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SELECT…INTO in SQL Server 2017
One of the new options available in SQL Server 2017 is the ability to specify a filegroup when using SELECT..INTO...
2017-08-22 (first published: 2017-08-02)
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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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Hidden Heroes
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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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