Consider a scenario in which you wish to use DACPACs, but you want to spin up SQL Server in a container on Linux (say Ubuntu) because you wish to forgo the cost of having to […]
In this post I am going to demonstrate how to use one of Jenkins more powerful features ; its ability to create multi-branch build pipelines. Source Code Control and Branching 101 The very first step […]
In this post I will demonstrate how a neat trick brought to my attention by Niko Neugebauer can turn the processing of windowing functions from “Anti-scale” to scale-ability. First of all we need to create […]
In the world of continuous integration and delivery where we might want to perform numerous builds a day. Docker is ideally suited for spinning up environments and then tearing them down afterwards in use cases […]
I was fortunate enough to be selected to speak at SQL Saturday Dublin, the talk I gave was on leveraging the in-memory engine, the basic flow of the presentation is thus: I ask the audience […]
In this blog post I wanted to distill down the most fundamental points to consider when attempting to process a SQL Server workload in a scale-able manner. However, many of the principles I will outline […]
This post continues my work on the LMax disrupt or pattern, I’ve already covered this already, what I have not covered is: Spinlock profiling Wait statistic profiling How the in-memory engine now behaves with SQL […]
