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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Monday Coffee: The evolving DBA

Over the weekend I saw a few tweets about the role of the DBA. These tweets (and corresponding blog posts)...

Friday Reading 2017-07-28

Hope you all had a good week. Been pretty chilled out here so I’ve been reading…
Announcing Azure Container Instances

Microsoft blog...

Automatically restarting Docker containers

One of the problems that I’ve encountered since moving my Dev/QA departments to using SQL Server within containers is that...