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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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 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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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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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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A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless) Availability Group to seed a database from a Windows SQL instance into a pod in...
2024-12-02 (first published: 2024-11-19)
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At a recent conference I was asked how I executed code during my presentation. Running code during a presentation should be as smooth as possible…so in VS Code I...
2024-10-16 (first published: 2024-09-27)
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Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into Kubernetes for test/dev purposes, and we don’t want to backup/restore. How can it be done?...
2024-08-05 (first published: 2024-07-26)
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