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...
2016-12-09
367 reads
The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
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...
2016-12-26 (first published: 2016-12-07)
2,061 reads
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...
2016-12-05
304 reads
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...
2016-12-02
373 reads
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...
2016-12-14 (first published: 2016-11-30)
2,031 reads
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...
2016-11-28
435 reads
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...
2016-11-25
486 reads
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...
2016-11-23
682 reads
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...
2016-11-21
352 reads
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....
2016-11-18
423 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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