The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

EightKB – Schedule published

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Today we announced the schedule for EightKB EightKB was setup by Anthony Nocentino (b|t), Mark Wilkinson (b|t), and myself as we wanted to put on an event that delved...

2020-05-21 (first published: 2020-05-06)

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Running Azure SQL Database Edge on a Raspberry Pi

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

One of the coolest new projects out there is Azure SQL Database Edge: – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database-edge/ This allows SQL Server to run on ARM devices which will expand the range...

2020-04-22

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Running Azure SQL Database Edge on a Raspberry Pi

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

One of the coolest new projects out there is Azure SQL Database Edge: – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database-edge/ This allows SQL to run on ARM devices, just think how many devices are...

2020-04-22

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EightKB – A new virtual SQL Server event

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

With all the events that have been cancelled over the next few months due to the on-going COVID-19 crisis, Mark Wilkinson (b|t), Anthony Nocentino (b|t), and I wanted to...

2020-04-22 (first published: 2020-04-15)

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Adjusting pod eviction time in Kubernetes

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

One of the best features of Kubernetes is the built-in high availability. When a node goes offline, all pods on that node are terminated and new ones spun up...

2020-04-17 (first published: 2020-04-08)

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Data Céilí 2020 Cancelled

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Yesterday we announced that Data Céilí 2020 has been cancelled due to the continuing threat of COVID-19. As much as we wanted to put this event on, the safety...

2020-04-03

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Two years of working remotely

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

I’ve been working remotely for just over 2 years now and my current position is my first remote post. Before joining my current company I (and them) had concerns...

2020-03-11

Merge kubectl config files on Windows

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

When working with multiple Kubernetes clusters, at some point you’ll want to merge your kubectl config files. I’ve seen a few blogs on how to merge kubectl config files...

2020-02-21

Chaos Engineering and SQL Server

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Recently I’ve been delving into Chaos Engineering, reading books, watching videos, listening to podcasts etc. and I find it really intriguing….I mean, it just sounds exciting, right? CHAOS Engineering!...

2020-01-29

Looking forward to 2020

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

2019 was a busy year for me. I presented sessions in over 10 countries, averaging speaking at two conferences per month. I also helped organise Data Relay and attended...

2020-01-23