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 […]

The aim of this blog post is twofold, it is to explain how: A “Self building pipeline” for the deployment of a SQL Server Data Tools project can be implemented using open source tools A build pipeline […]

Every so often a post appears on linked-in that serves as an oasis of information in a desert of spam. The article I speak of is “Non-Volatile Storage: Implications of The Data Center’s Shifting Center”. Its a god […]

A lot of the work I have done over the last year has involved placing stress on the database engine via singleton inserts using a stored procedure that inserts rows in a loop under the […]

In my Saturday community day session at SQL Bits I mentioned an article by Linchi Shea from the sqlblog site in which he demonstrates that the overhead of 100% foreign memory access does not incur the […]

I will speaking at Join! Conference in Poland, on the Tuesday (May 10 th)  I will be presenting a regular session on leveraging memory in SQL Server and  on the Wednesday I will be delivering […]