Friday Reading 2017-02-10
Fun week, performed some RAM upgrades for my production SQL boxes which for one server, somehow fried its motherboard, hard...
2017-02-10
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Creating SQL Containers from a Dockerfile
I’ve been playing around with SQL containers on Windows Sever 2016 a lot recently and well, building empty SQL containers...
2017-02-14 (first published: 2017-02-08)
3,323 reads
Monday Coffee 2017-02-06
A lot’s been said about last week’s Gitlab outage so I’m not going to go over the details here but...
2017-02-06
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Friday Reading 2017-02-03
2017 is trundling along now, this week I’ve been reading…
The GitLab incident report
We’ve all had that moment of “what did...
2017-02-03
318 reads
SQL Containers and Networking
I recently talked with the guys over at SQL Data Partners on their podcast about SQL Server and containers. It...
2017-02-10 (first published: 2017-02-01)
1,903 reads
Monday Coffee 2017-01-30
Wow, what a week last week was.
The biggest thing that happened was that I got a session at SQL Saturday...
2017-01-30
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Friday Reading 2017-01-26
Is it really still January? It seems like this month is dragging on a bit. Anyway, this week I’ve been...
2017-01-27
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Transaction log shipping in SQL Server on Linux
SQL Server on Linux has been out for a bit now and I’ve played around a little (see here) but...
2017-01-30 (first published: 2017-01-25)
2,077 reads
Monday Coffee 2017-01-23
I like to think of myself as a fairly hardworking, motivated person. However I recently met someone who regularly gets...
2017-01-23
299 reads
Friday Reading 2017-01-20
Been an interesting week! My site has had the most views ever (so chuffed) and during all that I’ve been...
2017-01-20
516 reads
Blogs
Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
dataMinds Connect 2025 – Slides & Scripts
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that...
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
What is returned as a result set when I run this command without a new seed value?
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