Windocks 1.0 was released in Q1 of 2016, as the first port of Docker’s open source to Windows. Some were skeptical of Windocks, as Microsoft planned an implementation for Windows Server 2016. We’re glad to have persevered, as Windocks now deliv...
Most database administrators, regardless of platform, are familiar with the concept of wait events. Wait events are a natural part of a database engine processing requests. When a connection is made to the database engine, a session ID (SPID) is...
How to Share SQL Server Management Studio Templates with Teams
Whenever I present on the subject of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) templates I inevitably get the question: “how do I share these with others on my team or between my lap...
SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 CU2
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Released last June, Microsoft SQL Server 2016 has been available for about eight months, even longer if you were using one of the CTP versions as far back as 2015. Now well into the New Year, if they’re not already, most...
This Was Not the Article I Intended to Write
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Sometimes you need to use T-SQL to compute the time passed between two events whose date and time values you get as inputs. For some purposes, it’s sufficient to compute the difference as a duration in terms of some part. What’s...
Over recent months the articles that I’ve written have focussed on the database engine. I’ve recently rolled many of the tools that I’ve been building for working with the database engine into a set of free downloads. You’ll find them here:
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Over recent months the articles that I’ve written have focussed on the database engine. I’ve recently rolled many of the tools that I’ve been building for working with the database engine into a set of free downloads. You’ll find them here:
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Over recent months the articles that I’ve written have focussed on the database engine. I’ve recently rolled many of the tools that I’ve been building for working with the database engine into a set of free downloads. You’ll find them here:
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