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Speaking at SQLSaturday Parma!
Anyone who knows me well will know that I like to fly my colors close to my chest and am a proud Chelsea fan. I have supported them since they fell to and rose back from the English old Second Division...
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4 days of Dockercon – Day 0
It’s around this time of year that I’d usually begin blogging my traditional 5,6 or 7 days of PASS (another conference about another technology) and I have been doing this for at least 3-4 years...
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4 days of Dockercon – Day 1
It’s those little things in life that you come to be grateful for when you are staying in a different country and significantly helps make your trip more relaxing and enjoyable. A quick visit to...
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4 days of Dockercon – Day 2
Why is it that at every conference I always seem to be rushing around in the morning trying to get to the keynote sessions in time. No matter how early I wake, I always seem to run out of time. Today...
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4 days of Dockercon – Day 3
The second and final day of general sessions arrives and I manage to leave my room with a little more time to spare than yesterday. Again, I grab a bite to eat in the exhibitor room and then find...
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4 days of Dockercon – Day 4
After doing some more work in the evening for Microsoft and watching my Football match, I didn’t get to sleep until midnight, so I woke with my usual conference groggy feeling. At my age, I really...
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Installing Docker on Linux Mint
Ok, so first things first. This is not a ground shaking post of revelation, and ultimately all the information you need can be found directly from Docker, but like all good posts this is intended to...
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Reading very BIG text files using PowerShell
I frequently have to troubleshoot a variety of data feeds (populated from very very large files) which are regularly ingested into SQL Server for reporting and data validation purposes. From time to...
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MVP Award Day – The July cycle!
The first rule of Fight Claw Club is… By the time this post is finally published, many of us will know the results of whether our renewal (or new award status) has been successful (or not). While I...
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Loading and using SQL Server Management Objects in PowerShell
I recently came across a snippet of code I had written for a client several years ago – one of those “by the way, how would you do this” type of requests. On the face of it, the task at hand seemed...
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Manipulating SQL Agent Jobs through PowerShell
In our last post titled Loading and using SQL Server Management Objects in PowerShell, we demonstrated how to load and consume SQL Server Management Objects in PowerShell, which then allows us to...
View ArticleIn-Memory logging and log “compression”
Introduced with SQL Server 2014, In-Memory OLTP (IMOLTP) provided a new optimistic concurrency model which implemented a lockless and latchless mechanism resulting in far better throughput for short...
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Custom Job scheduling, remote queries, and avoiding false negatives using...
Say what you want about the SQL Server Agent, it is the lifeblood of SQL Server for scheduling maintenance routines, data loading, and other such ongoing operations. It has been around since the dawn...
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Create multiple dashboards in the Azure Portal
Several years ago I wrote a very quick post on the Azure Portal user-experience called Using the new Azure Dashboard favourites and tiles which demonstrated how Microsoft is improving the usability of...
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Installing Azure CLI on Linux Mint
The Azure CLI (or Azure Command Line Interface) allows provides an easy way to create and manage your Azure resources on macOS, Linux, and Windows. If you (like me) are using Linux and wish to use and...
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AzureRM, Azure CLI and the PowerShell Az Module
There is now a variety of Microsoft provided command line tools available to connect to (and manage) Azure Resources and the situation is quite confusing to new-comers or those individuals who have not...
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Introduction to Azure Cloud Shell
In my last couple of posts, I have described the remote management of Azure through the command line from what was essentially a fat (or thick) client. This gives you an awful lot of scripting and...
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Using Azure CLI to query Azure DevOps
In previous posts, I have touched upon the use of Azure Cloud Shell for generic querying of Azure resources and I thought it would be useful to quickly document its use for something a little more...
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Rewrite your PowerShell AzureRm to Az for Azure DevOps deployments?
I just wanted to get a quick post out on specific problem that I have just encountered from one of our Azure DevOps release pipelines in which one of the release stage tasks started failing for no...
View ArticleUse PowerShell to consume your Azure CLI DevOps result set
Before we get going it is probably first worth me pointing out (in case you are wondering) that the whole premise of this post stems from a lack of native Azure DevOps PowerShell Module. Yes there are...
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