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....

SQL Server & Containers – Part One

Containers are a hot topic at the moment, there seems to be a new article about them on Hacker News...

Monday Coffee 2016-11-14

Communication in the workplace.
With the release of Microsoft Teams we now have a dazzlingly array of software designed to increase...

Friday Reading 2016-11-11

It’s Friday so no releases to Production today (ha!) which means in-between my code reviews, server audits and other tasks...

Drag & Drop Table & Column Names in SSMS

I was working with a developer the other day and he was typing out each table name and all the...

Query shortcuts in SQL Server Management Studio

Tired of typing out the same queries day after day? Well query shortcuts in SSMS are for you!
Following on from...

Changing connection colours in SQL Server Management Studio

A simple but effective setting in SQL Server Management Studio is using custom colours to identify which server you are...

DBCC CLONEDATABASE in SQL Server 2014

In SQL Server 2014 SP2 an interesting new DBCC command was included, DBCC CLONEDATABASE
This command creates a “clone” of a...