Monday Coffee: Attending Conferences

Last week I asked the following question on Twitter: –

I was interested to see the responses as I wanted to...

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...

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...

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...

Friday Reading 2017-06-16

Been looking forward to this weekend for a while now as it’s SQLSaturday Dublin tomorrow. I did a lightening talk...

Changing default location for docker containers

A question that regularly comes up when I talk about containers is, “can you specify where the containers/images live on...

GroupBy Conference – SQL Server & Containers

Morning all, busy week last week as I was lucky enough to have my session on SQL Server & Containers in...

Friday Reading 2017-06-09

Exciting day today as I’m presenting my first webinar on SQL Server & Containers in the GroupBy June conference! There’s a...

Identifying failed queries with extended events

Back to some core SQL this week and one of my favourite features, extended events.
Introduced in SQL Server 2008...

Monday Coffee – Lab Environments

Having a lab environment is an absolute must for any IT professional. You need somewhere that you can test out...