Friday Reading 2016-12-09

One week nearer to Xmas! Before I spend the weekend braving the centre of town desperately wondering what presents to...

SQL Server & Containers – Part Four

In this final part of my series on SQL Server & Containers I’ll detail an option to run earlier versions of...

Monday Coffee 2016-12-05

You are the DBA your company makes you. Aren’t you?
SQL Server has such a wide range of features that no...

Friday Reading 2016-12-02

Another week almost over so here’s a random selection of articles that I’ve been reading…
Changing the SQL Server port on...

SQL Server & Containers – Part Three

This post follows on from Part Two in which we created a custom docker image. We’ll now look at pushing...

Monday Coffee 2016-11-28

MCSA SQL Server 2016
The new SQL 2016 MCSA exams are out and joy of joys, the DBA path no longer...

Friday Reading 2016-11-25

Friday again so before I spend a weekend watching sci-fi movies, I’ll be reading:-
Virtue in the Virtual

Tony Davies discusses containerisation...

SQL Server & Containers – Part Two

This post follows on from SQL Server & Containers – Part 1 and will go through how to build custom container images.
Since...

Monday Coffee 2016-11-21

Well there were quite a few announcements in the SQL Server world last week.
SQL Server vNext CTP was made...

Friday Reading 2016-11-18

Another week almost over so in-between daydreaming about relaxing this weekend I’ll be reading…
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-server-2016-service-pack-1-sp1-released/

SQL Server 2016 SP1 has been released....