When we talk about snapshots of SQL Server there are two types, application consistent snapshots and crash consistent snapshots. Application consistent snapshots require freezing IO on a database allowing...
2023-02-08 (first published: 2023-01-25)
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EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2023…happening on May 24th. We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit here: – https://sessionize.com/eightkb-may-2023/...
2023-01-30 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Today we have launched Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee) Dublin 2023, Ireland’s free, community led, Microsoft Data Platform event. We tried in 2020 but certain global events prevented us from...
2023-01-16 (first published: 2023-01-09)
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SAVE THE DATE: VMUG Ireland Relaunch Event February 9th, 2023 Location: Dublin VMUG Ireland is back! We are hosting a VMUG Relaunch event in Dublin on February 9th, 2023....
2022-12-20
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I previously blogged about how to create a STONITH resource for a pacemaker cluster in VMWare virtual machines. Ok, I have a confession…you need to specify credentials when creating...
2022-12-16 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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We’ve all been there as DBAs…people requesting access to the servers that we look after to be able to view certain things. I’ve always got, well, twitchy with giving...
2022-12-07 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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A while back I wrote a post about creating a pacemaker cluster to run SQL Server availability group using the new Ubuntu images in Azure. Recently I had to...
2022-11-16 (first published: 2022-11-03)
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In a previous post I talked about an issue with storage failover when a Kubernetes node goes offline. In a nutshell, the issue is that the attachdetach-controller in Kubernetes...
2022-10-19 (first published: 2022-10-11)
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I previously wrote a post on how to convert a SQL Server Docker image to a Windows Subsystem for Linux distribution. I did this because if you tried to...
2022-10-05 (first published: 2022-09-27)
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EightkB is back! Today we announced the schedule for the next EightKB, which is happening at 1pm UTC on the 3rd of August. We have five more amazing, mind-melting...
2022-07-13
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