Azure DevOps–Using Variable Groups

I was in a webinar recently and saw a note about variable groups. That looked interesting, as I’ve started to find that I may have lots of variables in...

Daily Coping 6 Nov 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Persistent Server Name Metadata When Deploying SQL Server in Kubernetes

In this post, we will explore how a Pod name is generated, Pod Name lifecycle, how it’s used inside a Pod to set the system hostname, and how the...

Daily Coping 5 Nov 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Error: 8623 - The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan

 Unfortunately a common error in many of our client environments is this:
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Error: 8623, Severity: 16, State: 1. The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce...

Quick Start to Using Influxdb on Macos

Intro
OSS 2.0 is a release candidate at this time, so this may change once it’s released.
It wasn’t quite clear to me how to get up and running quickly with...

ASF 034: Alex Yates interview (part 1)

Introduction Alex is a Data Platform MVP who loves DevOps. He’s has been helping data professionals apply DevOps principles to relational database development and deployment since 2010. He’s most...

Daily Coping 4 Nov 2020

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Migrating SQL Server container images to the Github Container Registry

A couple of months ago Docker announced that they would be implementing a 6 month retention policy for unused images in the Docker Hub. This was due to kick...

PASS Virtual Summit 2020: I'm (Virtually) Presenting

I'll be presenting at 7AM Central Time in the first timeslot of the main three-day PASS Virtual Summit 2020 conference. It's long been a goal of mine to present...