Deploying Asp.Net Core and MySQL into Linux Docker Containers – and Populating the Database
I’ve written an .Net Core API that I want to deploy out. I want to use all open-source software so it’s going to be using a MySQL database and be hosted on a Linux box somewhere. The Task I want…
Applying Entity Framework Migrations to a Docker Container
I’m going to run through how to deploy an API and a database into two separate Docker containers then apply Entity Framework migrations. This will create and populate the database with the correct schema and reference data. My idea was…
Publishing SQL Server database in Docker
To me docker containers have an ethereal, almost unreal quality to them. Do they really exist? Where are they? What do they look like? To convince myself of their reality I want to use SQL Server Management Studio on the…
Selecting from a column with possible NULLs in T-SQL
I write blog posts for different reasons. Sometimes it’s because things aren’t well documented elsewhere, sometimes it’s new and interesting and sometimes it’s purely for my own amusement. Occasionally I write things as I kind of penance – things I…
SQL Server restore fails if backups taken in rapid succession
I don’t spend an awful lot of time thinking about SQL Server. To me it’s a workhorse which I think is a compliment. * It’s steady, reliable and gets the job done. It’s not glamorous though and people don’t talk…
T-SQL Random Data Generator
I’ve often had the need to populate database tables with chunks of random data for testing and so forth and this random data generator stored procedure does the trick for me. I’ve had it knocking round in my sock draw…
