Space Invaders on Kubernetes
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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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Replacing VS Code with Vim
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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Running Powershell code in Vim
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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Building a pacemaker cluster to deploy a SQL Server availability group in Azure
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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Operating system error 995 when adding a database to an availability group
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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Using environment variable files for SQL Server in containers
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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Updating SQL Server container memory limits on the fly
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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A storage failover issue with SQL Server on Kubernetes
I’ve been running a proof of concept for SQL Server on Kubernetes over the last year or so (ok, probably longer than that…hey, I’m a busy guy ?? )...
2021-07-26
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EightKB Summer 2021 Edition
The schedule for EightKB Summer 2021 Edition has been announced! Here’s the schedule: – N.B. – I particularly like that if you click on the session on the website,...
2021-07-02 (first published: 2021-06-15)
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Running a SQL Server container from scratch
I’ve been interested (obsessed?) with running SQL Server in containers for a while now, ever since I saw how quick and easy it was to spin one up. That...
2021-05-24 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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