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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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
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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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...
2017-06-16
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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...
2017-06-22 (first published: 2017-06-14)
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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...
2017-06-12
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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...
2017-06-09
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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...
2017-06-07
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Blogs
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers