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...

Monday Coffee: SQL Services in Containers

I had an interesting question on twitter last week when I published my post on Running Linux Container on Windows:...

Friday Reading 2017-07-21

Fun week! I moderated a couple of great sessions for 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview. As someone getting into...

Running Linux Containers on Windows

Microsoft have announced the availability of SQL Server 2017 RC1 and I wanted to check it out in a container...