Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server
Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server, in this post I want to see if I can improve the performance from the...
2025-12-11
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Running SQL Server on KubeVirt – Getting Started
With all the changes that have happened with VMware since the Broadcom acquisition I have been asked more and more about alternatives for running SQL Server. One of the...
2025-12-02
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Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025
Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous transaction rollback, and aggressive log truncation. A complete overview of how ADR achieves this is...
2025-11-17 (first published: 2025-10-31)
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Deploying SQL Server to Kubernetes via SQL Server 2025
Following on from my previous post about hitting the Kubernetes API from SQL Server 2025 let’s go a little further and deploy SQL Server 2025 to Kubernetes from…SQL Server...
2025-08-25 (first published: 2025-08-01)
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Accessing the Kubernetes API from SQL Server 2025
The sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint stored procedure that’s available in 2025 allows for SQL Server to hit external rest endpoints…which opens up quite a few interesting options. I was thinking about this...
2025-08-20 (first published: 2025-07-31)
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EightKB 2025 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2025 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on August 21st…here’s the schedule: – N.B. – If...
2025-06-30
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Vertically scaling SQL Server online in Kubernetes
One of the new features in Kubernetes v1.33 is the ability to resize CPU and memory resources for containers online, aka without having to recreate the pod the container...
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-05-22)
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EightKB 2025
EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2025…it’s all happening on August the 21st! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit...
2025-03-28 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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Visualising SQL Server in Kubernetes
The other day I came across an interesting repo on github, KubeDiagrams. What this repo does is generate Kubernetes architecture diagrams from Kubernetes manifest files…nice! Deploying applications to Kubernetes...
2025-02-17 (first published: 2025-02-06)
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Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to really learn, you need a project. I’m a DBA by trade and as such…haven’t really...
2025-01-06 (first published: 2024-12-20)
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Blogs
Why Optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer
One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize...
Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server
Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server,...
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Forums
Change Tracking – Troubleshooting
I have change tracking configured in several databases, in QA and production environments, and...
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...
Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers