It’s moving weekend! Hopefully two hard days and then I’ll be all settled in my new place. Cannot wait.

Inbetween packing all my belongings into cardboard boxes, I’ve been reading…

Linux Containers on Windows (LCOW)
Stefan Scherer (b|t) shows us how to run Linux containers side-by-side with Windows containers. Sadly it doesn’t work for SQL containers yet, but still really cool.

Dealing with Disappointment and Learning from Failures
Catherine Wilhelmsen (t) takes us through the range of emotions she experienced after a disappointing SQL Saturday (this is a must read for any speaker)

The world of Automatic Tuning – SQL Server 2017
Arun Sirpal (t) details the new auto-tuning feature in SQL 2017 (very cool)

Introducing the new Dv3 and Ev3 VM sizes
Old post from the Azure blogs but crucial to know if you want to run Docker in Azure (self install)

Parallelism in Hekaton (In-Memory OLTP)
Niko Neugebauer (t) goes through something interesting quirks that he’s discovered in Hekaton

Have a good weekend!

It’s been absolutely freezing here in Dublin this week. Been spending pretty much all time wrapped up indoors reading…

Discussing PASS Linux Content with OVA Winner Tracy Boggiano
Tracy Boggiano (b|t) talks to PASS about Linux content in the PASS Virtual Groups

Best newish SSMS feature
Jason Brimhall (t) shows us how to enable the scrollbar map in SSMS

When A Log Backup Does Not Truncate Your SQL Server Log Files In An Availability Group
Edwin Sarmiento (t) explains a situation where logs files won’t be truncated when a database is in an availability group and how you can monitor

Pester 4.2.0 has a Because…… because 🙂
Rob Sewell (t) details the Because parameter in the Pester pre-release version 4.2.0

How I designed my VMware vSAN based Home Lab
Klaus Aschenbrenner (t) goes into detail on the specs of his home lab (v. cool)

A Closer Look at OUTPUT
Mark Wilkinson (t) shows us some interesting ways to use the OUTPUT clause

Have a good weekend!

Morning all! PASS Summit is coming next week but unfortunately I can’t make it this year. I hope everyone who is going has a blast, learns some cool stuff, and meets great people.

Instead I’ll be presenting at the Southampton SQL User Group next Wednesday. Looking forward to this as I love presenting about containers and have been writing new demos to show off 🙂

This week I have been reading/watching…

Understanding container standards
Video explaining all the components of containers and the standards that govern their interactions

Introducting the preview of Azure Container Services (AKS)
Azure blog announcing the preview of AKS, the new Azure managed Kubernetes service

Container Orchestration Simplified with Managed Kubernetes in Azure Container Service (AKS)
Here’s a 15 min channel 9 video giving a quick overview of AKS

Best Jenkins tutorials, videos, courses & books 2017
Nice summary of Jenkins tutorials

DockerCon Europe 2017 Videos
All the sessions from last week’s DockerCon

Have a good weekend!

Another busy week almost over and today I’m heading to Utrecht for SQL Saturday Holland! Never been to Utrecht before so am going to spend some time exploring 🙂

This week I’ve been reading…

Ask HN: Would you run SQL Server on Linux?
James Anderson (t) asks Hacker News readers if they would run SQL Server on Linux

When deadlocks become art
Matthew McGiffen’s (t) post on some deadlock horrors!

Scheduling powershell tasks with sql agent
Dbatools (t) post on how to setup powershell jobs in the SQL Server Agent (I’ve always found it to be a pain)

Measure Your Docker Containers’ Resources
Nick Janetakis’ (t) post on how to measure resources consumed by your containers

Who is using Docker containers and why?
Kumina infographic on how Docker is being implemented

Announcing the public preview of PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
Finally, powershell is available in Azure Cloud Shell

Have a good weekend!

Excited for next week as I’m heading down to Cork to speak at the User Group there. Over 3 years in Ireland and I haven’t been yet, it’s about time.

This week I’ve been reading…

What does this little check box do?
Monica Rathbun (t) explains what checking the query governor to prevent long running queries tick box does

Your PASS Summit 2017 Speaker Idol Contestants Are…
Denny Cherry (t) details the line-up for this year’s Speaker Idol competition at Pass Summit

Sneak peek #3: Windows Server, version 1709 for developers
Official MS blog post explaining that the new insider version of Windows Server allows linux containers to run, very cool!

Running Ubuntu Containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows
And here’s a step-by-step guide on how to set that up!

Have a good weekend!