Stairway to Database Containers Level 1: Getting Started with Database Containers
In the first level of the Stairway to Database Containers, we learn how to get started with Docker for Windows, downloading an image, and starting a container.
Stairway to Database Containers Level 2: Persisting Storage in Containers
The second level of the Stairway to Database Containers looks at the basics of persisting storage in your containers.
Stairway to Database Containers Level 3: Building Custom Container Images by Hand
In this next level of the Stairway to Database Containers learn how to customer a container and save the changes to a new image.
We Stink!
You know I have to say something about Crowdstrike. How could I not? Recovery for most people seems to be well in hand, but there are still places dealing with it. I was personally impacted because I was trying to fly home last Friday. While my airline and the airports I was flying through were […]
An Alternative (Better?) Method to UNPIVOT (SQL Spackle)
Normalizing or UNPIVOTing data may be improved by using this lesser known approach in SQL Server 2008 or later.
I may need to re-think the use of table variables
Table variables have been fixed in SQL 2019, so now I have to decide if I will use them again.
Migrate a SQL Server Database to a PostgreSQL Database
Learn about various options to migrate an entire SQL Server database to a PostgreSQL database.
Thinking About Technology
Steve is thinking about technology today, inspired by a developer/architect that asks some philosophical and moral questions of software.
Microsoft Fabric, the Land of Wizards and Trolls
In my previous article (What is Microsoft Fabric All About) I explained what Microsoft Fabric is, how it came about and whether it brings anything new to the data insights domain.
SQL Server 2012 Always On Groups and FCIs Part 1
Learn how to get a Failover Cluster Instance set up and configured with Windows and SQL Server. This is part of a series showing how to combine a Failover Cluster Instance of SQL Server with an Always On availability group.
Blogs
What’s New at AWS re:Invent 2025 – Day 1 Highlights
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Running SQL Server on KubeVirt – Getting Started
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Why is shrinking IT budgets a good thing?
Each year around this time, companies enter the familiar ritual of budgeting. For many,...
Forums
Best analysis approach to reduce data type length in multiple tables
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Do you separate data/log files and TempDB files on different disks using AWS EC2
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Service account being in local admin in AWS EC2 environment?
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Question of the Day
A New Operator
In SQL Server 2025, what does this code return?
SELECT '1' || '0'See possible answers