Been looking forward to this weekend for a while now as it’s SQLSaturday Dublin tomorrow. I did a lightening talk at SQLSat Dublin 2016 and am really chuffed to have a full session this year. There’s a whole bunch of great sessions, Bob and the team always put on a great event. It’s going to be good fun 🙂

Anway, this week I’ve been reading…

Orchestrating SQL Server with Kubernetes
James Anderson (t) shows us how to manage groups of containers with Kubernetes

DB in recovery pending after TLog backup
David Fowler takes us through how he resolved an issue with a db going into recovery pending after a log backup

Simple SQL: Attribute Splitting
Joe Celko takes us through why relational database design is so important

The SQL Hall of Shame
Adam Machanic (t) did a survey on twitter to find out the most useless feature that SQL has ever had. Here’s the results.

OK, I give up. Is Docker now Moby? And what is LinuxKit?
Nice article about Docker’s shift to Moby

Have a good weekend!

Exciting day today as I’m presenting my first webinar on SQL Server & Containers in the GroupBy June conference! There’s a whole bunch of other great sessions going on there today, I highly recommend that you check them out.

Been a busy week but when I’ve had some time I’ve been reading…

Why I try to help with dbaools
Things like this are on my to-do list but I never really know how to approach it, so this is a cool post by Shane O’Neill (t) on how he got into working on dbatools.

Unable To Call Into C Compiler !?
Nice problem solving post by Arun Sirpal (t)

How I optimised my life to make my job redundant
An old post by Troy Hunt (t) but a good read.

var Microsoft Data Platform MVP = “Yip.”;
Hamish Watson (t) on becoming an MVP.

SETI “Wow!” Signal Wasn’t Chatty Aliens After All — It Was a Fizzing Comet
A 40 year old mystery explained!

Have a good weekend!

The weather in Dublin has reverted to type (aka rain) but hopefully we’ll get some sun this weekend! This week I’ve been doing a lot of work with powershell so what I’ve been reading kinda focuses on that…

GitHub – PowerShell Module for Docker
A powershell module for docker!

Parsing Docker Commands
Thought I’d (shamelessly) plug my own Github repo for working with docker 🙂

AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
I’ve been troubleshooting our AWS snapshots this week so have been reading the official documentation for the powershell AWS tools

DBATools
An excellent powershell module for interacting with SQL Server. Getting to grips with this is something I’ve had on my to-do list for far too long.

Microsoft Doubles Down on Containers with Deis Acquisition
An article about Microsoft acquiring a company called Deis. Further proof that Microsoft is in the container business for the long run.

Have a good weekend!

The weather in Dublin is absolutely gorgeous at the moment so I’m not planning on spending much time inside this weekend! Hope the weather is the same wherever you are, here’s some reading (to be done outside 🙂 )…

Experienced DBA: Rookie Mistake
John Morehouse tells us about a mistake he made (love these types of posts)

TIL: Microsoft Azure Part 1
Monica Rathbun gives us an introduction to Azure

SQL 2017 Is On The Way!!
Lori Brown goes through the new features available in SQL Server 2017 CTP

Configure SQL Server settings with environment variables on Linux
Post from Microsoft detailing the new environment variables that you can set for linux containers running SQL Server

How does Bitcoin work?
Economist article on how bitcoin works

Have a great weekend!

Everyone finished patching all their servers? In-between patching this week I’ve been reading…

Why VS Code Increases my Productivity
Rob talks about how using Visual Studio Code as his primary IDE increases his output

The Setup
Jessie Frazelle talks about her hardware, OS and software configs.

Try new SQL Server command line tools to generate T-SQL scripts and monitor Dynamic Management Views
Official SQL Server blog detailing two new command line tools

SQL Server on Docker with new Environment Variables
James Anderson goes through the new env switches available when creating a container running SQL Server

The 22-year-old Brit who stopped the global cyberattack is donating his $10,000 reward to charity
Fair play to the guy

Have a good weekend!