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

Virtue in the Virtual
Tony Davies discusses containerisation and virtualisation technologies and how they could be used to benefit processes within RedGate

Query wait stats in SQL 2016 SP1 Execution Plans
What a cool feature!

Source Control in SSMS
Ken Van Hyning, Engineering Manager of SQL Server Client Tools at Microsoft discuss enabling TFS integration in SSMS
(N.B.- To get this to work you have to uncomment all the lines in the section specified and then run SSMS as administrator. Interestingly enough this unlocks the dark theme but it’s not complete, the custom areas of SSMS won’t change)

Giving back with code
Steph Locke talks about the reasons why you should make the code you write publicly available

SQL Server v.Next—Linux Preview and Ola Hallengren’s Jobs
Joey D’Antoni talks about SQL Server vNext on Linux and gives a quick intro into using Ola Hallengren’s maintenance scripts

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. If you haven’t read this blog post yet, have a look at the first point when it details what new in SP1

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-vnext-including-Linux#resources
SQL Server vNext is out for CTP. This includes SQL for Linux. Grab a copy of Ubuntu 16.04 and get installing!

SQL Server Tail Of Log Caching on NVDIMM
Bob(?) talks about the ability of SQL Server 2016 to use non-volatile memory to cache the tail of the log file (look at the IOPS!)

Microsoft SQL Server Team AMA
Dear Microsoft, where the heck is the dark theme for SSMS???? Seriously…

Code I’m still ashamed of
Bill Sourour talks about code he wrote as a junior developer and the grim functionality behind it

How we make money at StackOverflow
Nick Craver explains how Stack Overflow makes money and how they maintain their business ethics

The tale of the database with no indexes
Devon Leann talks about her strategy for dealing with a database that has no indexes (favourite line “…nary an index was present…” ha!)

It’s Friday so no releases to Production today (ha!) which means in-between my code reviews, server audits and other tasks I’ll be reading the following…

Speaking? You? Go on.
Rob Sewell talks about why you should be presenting and gives his tips.

Public Speaking: A Primer
Paul Randal with a pretty detailed post on tips for presenting.

Build And Run Your First Docker Windows Server Container
Containers are a hot topic at the moment, this article guides you through creating a docker Windows container on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.

Edge running in a VM
Anyone out there actually using Edge? Well, here’s some (oldish) news.

Sega Genesis returns to production — in Brazil
The Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive for us Brits) has apparently been resurrected in Brazil! Bit of a blast from the past.

That’s it from me, have a good weekend.