My Desktop Setup

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Every once in awhile when I’m recording a Pluralsight course, I’ll take a photo of my desk to let people see the behind the scenes of the process. Well,...

2020-01-17 (first published: 2020-01-08)

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Upgrading SQL Server 2017 Containers to 2019 non-root Containers with Data Volumes – Another Method

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Yesterday in this post I described a method to correct permissions when upgrading a SQL Server 2017 container using Data Volumes to 2019’s non-root container on implementations that use...

2019-12-04 (first published: 2019-11-21)

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Upgrading SQL Server 2017 Containers to 2019 non-root Containers with Data Volumes

• by Anthony Nocentino

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Recently Microsoft released a Non-Root SQL Server 2019 container and that’s the default if you’re pulling a new container image. But what if you’re using a 2017 container running...

2019-12-02 (first published: 2019-11-20)

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Updated: Getting Started with Installing Kubernetes

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Let’s get you started on your Kubernetes journey with installing Kubernetes and creating a cluster in virtual machines. Kubernetes is a distributed system, you will be creating a cluster...

2019-11-01 (first published: 2019-10-07)

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Speaking at PASS Summit 2019!

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I’m very pleased to announce that I will be speaking at PASS Summit 2019!  This is my second time speaking at PASS Summit and I’m very excited to be doing...

2019-10-31

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Memory Settings for Running SQL Server in Kubernetes

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People often ask me what’s the number one thing to look out for when running SQL Server on Kubernetes…the answer is memory settings. In this post, we’re going to...

2019-10-04 (first published: 2019-09-28)

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Restoring Backups from Azure Blob with dbatools

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Recently I needed to write a PowerShell script that could build a backup set from a collection of backups stored in Azure Blob Storage without any backup history available...

2019-09-30 (first published: 2019-09-15)

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Using strace inside a SQL Server Container

• by Anthony Nocentino

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So, if you’ve been following my blog you know my love for internals. Well, I needed to find out exactly how something worked at the startup of a SQL...

2019-09-17 (first published: 2019-09-03)

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Using kubectl logs to read the SQL Server Error Log in Kubernetes

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When working with SQL Server running containers the Error Log is written to standard out. Kubernetes will expose that information to you via kubectl. Let’s check out how it...

2019-09-14

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New Pluralsight Course – Managing Kubernetes Controllers and Deployments

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My new course “Managing Kubernetes Controllers and Deployments” in now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in go here! This course offers practical tips from my...

2019-09-13

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