And the results of the poll are in!

Evening just scraping it! So there’s a pretty even mix out there, interesting. Thanks to all who voted, was good fun reading all the comments on twitter.

A lot of morning voters said that they used to be evening people but have now changed. I’m betting have children played a big part in that 🙂

I’ll leave that poll open in case anyone else wants to vote.

Have a good weekend!

Haven’t posted one of these for a while! It’s good to have some time back to be able to read/write.

I’ve had a pretty mixed week, but the highlight has definitely been pulling the trigger on buying a Dell XPS 13 running Ubuntu. The Dell is a pretty slick machine, I’ve seen a few people at events with them and I’ve always been really envious so I finally went and bought myself one 🙂

Will write a post about how I get on with it after a couple of weeks. Anyway, this week I’ve been reading…

Azure Container Registry Build Supports All Windows Versions
I’ve been playing around with ACR build recently (see here), more options are always welcome!

Azure Container Instances now available in Australia East, East US 2, and Central US
New regions available for deployment of ACIs

Public Preview of Row Mode Memory Grant Feedback in Azure SQL Database
More adaptive query processing improvements in Azure SQL Database

Day 1 of 4 – My life as a Production DBA (Technical Lead)
Garry Bargsley’s (t) series on his day to day life as a DBA

RESTORE VERIFYONLY what does WITH LOADHISTORY do?
Kenneth Fisher (t) tells us about the LOADHISTORY option. I honestly didn’t know this existed.

Have a good weekend!

Phew, busy week. In the middle of updating presentations and making sure demos work!

Here’s a few of the articles that I’ve managed to read this week…

Containers: The Future of Database Infrastructure?
Joey D’Antoni (b|t) takes a look at containers

Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime
Google have open-sourced gVisor, a sandboxing technology for containers

Network start-up and performance improvements in Windows 10 April 2018 Update and Windows Server, version 1803
MS Networking blog on the recent changes to Windows Containers

Microsoft’s Azure Container Service Goes GA
Azure Container Instances have gone out for GA!

Managing SQL Server in Linux Containers with dbatools
My 24 Hours of PASS Session

And this from XKCD 🙂

Have a good weekend!

Feels like an age since I posted some links. So busy these days!

I’m really excited today as tomorrow I head to North Carolina for two weeks. My company’s HQ is out there and I’m also presenting at SQL Saturday Raleigh next weekend. My first American SQL Sat! 🙂

Recently, when I’ve had the chance, I’ve been reading…

Troubleshooting SQL Server Scheduling and Yielding
Good post on the MSDN blogs about an issue that I’ve had to deal with recently

How to recover/rebuild Master Database in Linux?
I’ve been reading everything I can get my hands on about SQL on Linux and this is a cool post by Max Trinidad (t)

Procedure to Create New Filegroups and Files
Tracy (t) with a nice post on a stored proc to create new files and filegroups

When to use Quotes in PowerShell Splatting
Shane (t) with a tip when splatting

Rob Sewell talks about dbatools on RunAs Radio
Rob (b|t) talks about dbatools on the RunAsRadio podcast

Have a great weekend!

A new project underway is Speaking Mentors. I think this is an amazing idea and the response that it’s had already seems to have proved me right 🙂

There’s so many talented people involved I thought I’d put together a quick list of those who have written about the project on their blog. So here they are…

Speaking Mentors
Alex Yates (t) announcing the site

Giving back – Speaking Mentors
My post on why I wanted to join

I’m a Speaker Mentor!
Andy Leonard (t)

Exciting News!
Mark Wilkinson (t)

Exciting New Projects
Tracy Boggiano (t)

I’m a speaking mentor!
Angela Henry (t)

I’ve become a mentor
Alexander Arvidsson (t)

Setting mentoring ground rules
Although not part of Speaking Mentors, I thought I’d drop this blog post in by Paul Randal (t) as it has some great advice

Have a good weekend!