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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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Converting a SQL Server Docker image to a WSL2 Distribution
Windows Subsystem for Linux is probably my favourite feature of Windows 10. It gives us the ability to run full blown linux distributions on our Windows 10 desktop. This...
2021-04-15 (first published: 2021-04-13)
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Creating presentations with Reveal and Github pages
I really don’t like Powerpoint. I’ll do pretty much anything to avoid writing a presentation in it. Thankfully for the last few years there’s been a service called GitPitch...
2021-02-26 (first published: 2021-02-21)
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EightKB is coming!
The next EightKB is coming on January 27th, kicking off at 2pm UTC. Once again we have 5 mind melting sessions on 5 in-depth SQL Server internals topics, from...
2021-01-13 (first published: 2021-01-07)
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Provisioning storage for Azure SQL Edge running on a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster
In a previous post we went through how to setup a Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pis and then deploy Azure SQL Edge to it. In this post I want...
2020-12-16 (first published: 2020-12-07)
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Updating my Kubernetes Raspberry Pi Cluster to containerd
There’s been a lot of conversations happening on twitter over the last couple of days due to the fact that Docker is deprecated in Kubernetes v1.20. If you want...
2020-12-03
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Building a Raspberry Pi cluster to run Azure SQL Edge on Kubernetes
A project I’ve been meaning to work on for a while has been to build my own Kubernetes cluster running on Raspberry Pis. I’ve been playing around with Kubernetes...
2020-12-11 (first published: 2020-11-30)
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Differences between using a Load Balanced Service and an Ingress in Kubernetes
What is the difference between using a load balanced service and an ingress to access applications in Kubernetes? Basically, they achieve the same thing. Being able to access an...
2020-12-02 (first published: 2020-11-23)
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EightKB is back!
We’re back! The first EightKB back in July was a real blast. Five expert speakers delivered mind-melting content to over 1000 attendees! We were honestly blown away by how...
2020-11-30 (first published: 2020-11-18)
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Migrating SQL Server container images to the Github Container Registry
A couple of months ago Docker announced that they would be implementing a 6 month retention policy for unused images in the Docker Hub. This was due to kick...
2020-11-04 (first published: 2020-10-29)
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Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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