Running dbatools commands with VS Code tasks
I’ve started to look at the excellent dbatools.io to automate some of the checks that I routinely perform on my...
2017-07-07
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Friday Reading 2017-07-07
Final Lions Test tomorrow! The win last week sets up a thrilling series decider, if they win they’ll be the...
2017-07-07
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Persisting data in docker containers – Part Three
Last week in Part Two I went through how to create named volumes and map them to containers in order...
2017-07-19 (first published: 2017-07-05)
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Monday Coffee: Alerts & Checks
Hope you all had a good weekend, the Lions won so I’m pretty happy.
Over the weekend I was thinking about...
2017-07-03
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Friday Reading 2017-06-30
Second test for the British & Irish Lions tomorrow, they need this one to keep the series alive. I’ll be up...
2017-06-30
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Persisting data in docker containers – Part Two
Last week in Part One I went through how to mount directories from the host server into a docker container...
2017-07-10 (first published: 2017-06-28)
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Monday Coffee: Attending Conferences
Last week I asked the following question on Twitter: –
I was interested to see the responses as I wanted to...
2017-06-26
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Friday Reading 2017-06-23
The weather has been absolutely boiling here in Dublin all week, I’m dying for a cold beer! Anyway, whilst drinking...
2017-06-23
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Persisting data in docker containers – Part One
Normally when I work with SQL instances within containers I treat them as throw-away objects. Any modifications that I make...
2017-06-29 (first published: 2017-06-21)
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Monday Coffee: SQL Saturday Dublin
Last weekend was SQL Saturday Dublin, and it was a good one.
My session on An introduction to SQL Server & Containers...
2017-06-19
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
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...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
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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