EightKB August 2022
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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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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A while back I wrote a post on Adjusting Pod Eviction Timings in Kubernetes. To test the changes made in that post I had to shut down nodes in...
2022-07-04 (first published: 2022-06-24)
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I really like the mssql-cli tool. I use it pretty much everyday however it seems like it’s not being maintained anymore and as such, there are issues when trying...
2022-06-08 (first published: 2022-05-13)
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A while ago I blogged about an awesome Chaos Engineering tools built by Eugenio Marzo (t) call KubeInvaders. Since then Eugenio has updated the repo to make it easier...
2022-03-25 (first published: 2022-03-10)
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OK so maybe not replacing, this is more like emulating VS Code in Vim. Disclaimer – I like VS Code and I won’t be uninstalling it anytime soon and...
2022-01-14
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I’ve been mucking about with Vim a bit recently and recently found myself (for reasons unknown tbh) writing powershell scripts in it. Once I’d written a script, I would...
2022-01-26 (first published: 2022-01-07)
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There are new Ubuntu Pro 20.04 images available in the Azure marketplace with SQL Server 2019 pre-installed so I thought I’d run through how to create a three node...
2021-12-08 (first published: 2021-12-01)
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I was adding databases to an availability group (SQL Server 2017 CU20 instance) the other day and one database failed to automatically seed to the secondary. When I looked...
2021-10-18 (first published: 2021-10-05)
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There are a whole bunch of environment variables that can be used to configure SQL Server when run in a Docker container. You can check out the full list...
2021-10-08 (first published: 2021-09-24)
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When running multiple SQL Server containers on a Docker host we should always be setting CPU and Memory limits for each container (see the flags for memory and cpus...
2021-08-18 (first published: 2021-08-06)
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By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to appreciate your hands and all the things they do...
By alevyinroc
On to the FIRST Robotics Competition 2023 World Championship Last week I wrote about...
My biggest fear when my book went into production was that any factual errors...
SELECT BusinessEntityID,FirstName,MiddleName,LastName, YEAR(OrderDate) AS OrderYear, DATENAME(MM,OrderDate) AS OrderMonth FROM Person.Person Pp INNER...
I am after some advice, I have completed a SSRS migration 2017 - 2019. ...
Hi, I've been tasked with finding out why we've been unable to patch the...