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...

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...

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...

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...

SQL Containers and Networking

I recently talked with the guys over at SQL Data Partners on their podcast about SQL Server and containers. It...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...