Data Ceili 2023 – Schedule and Registration
Today we have announced the schedule for Data Céilí 2023 and have opened registration! We have two days of great sessions for you, the 8th of June will have...
2023-04-03
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Checking the Microsoft Container Registry for new SQL Server images
A while back I wrote a post on how to retrieve the SQL Server images in the Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). It’s pretty simple to check the MCR but...
2023-02-27 (first published: 2023-02-17)
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Recovering data with crash consistent snapshots
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 2023
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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Data Céilí Dublin 2023
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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VMUG Ireland Relaunch Event
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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Creating a user for a STONITH resource in vSphere
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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Granting read access to SQL Server services with Just Enough Administration
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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Creating a STONITH resource for a pacemaker cluster on VMWare virtual machines
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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Overcoming a storage failover issue with SQL Server on Kubernetes using Portworx
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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Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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