The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

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

Remote sessions at Data Céilí

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

At Data Céilí 2020 we want to be as green as possible and one idea we’ve had is to run a Green Track that will host remote sessions from...

2020-01-08

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Using volumes in SQL Server 2019 non-root containers

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

I’ve seen a few people online asking how to use docker named volumes with the new SQL Server 2019 RTM images. Microsoft changed the way SQL runs within a...

2019-11-25 (first published: 2019-11-18)

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Using the GitHub Package Registry to store container images

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

The GitHub Package Registry is available for beta testing and allows us to store container images in it, basically giving us the same functionality as the Docker Hub. However...

2019-10-23

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Running SQL Server containers as non-root

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Recently I noticed that Microsoft uploaded a new dockerfile to the mssql-docker repository on Github. This dockerfile was under the mssql-server-linux-non-root directory and (you guessed it) allows SQL Server...

2019-09-25 (first published: 2019-09-18)

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Use port forwarding to access SQL Server running in Kubernetes

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

A really handy feature in Kubernetes is port forwarding. This can be used to narrow down an issue when connections are failing to SQL Server running in a cluster....

2019-09-17 (first published: 2019-09-04)

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