Data Céilí 2020 Cancelled
Yesterday we announced that Data Céilí 2020 has been cancelled due to the continuing threat of COVID-19. As much as we wanted to put this event on, the safety...
2020-04-03
12 reads
The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Two years of working remotely
I’ve been working remotely for just over 2 years now and my current position is my first remote post. Before joining my current company I (and them) had concerns...
2020-03-11
25 reads
Merge kubectl config files on Windows
When working with multiple Kubernetes clusters, at some point you’ll want to merge your kubectl config files. I’ve seen a few blogs on how to merge kubectl config files...
2020-02-21
312 reads
Chaos Engineering and SQL Server
Recently I’ve been delving into Chaos Engineering, reading books, watching videos, listening to podcasts etc. and I find it really intriguing….I mean, it just sounds exciting, right? CHAOS Engineering!...
2021-05-03 (first published: 2020-01-29)
321 reads
Looking forward to 2020
2019 was a busy year for me. I presented sessions in over 10 countries, averaging speaking at two conferences per month. I also helped organise Data Relay and attended...
2020-01-23
9 reads
Remote sessions at Data Céilí
At Data Céilí 2020 we want to be as green as possible and one idea we’ve had is to run a Green Track that will host remote sessions from...
2020-01-08
15 reads
Using volumes in SQL Server 2019 non-root containers
I’ve seen a few people online asking how to use docker named volumes with the new SQL Server 2019 RTM images. Microsoft changed the way SQL runs within a...
2019-11-25 (first published: 2019-11-18)
3,715 reads
Using the GitHub Package Registry to store container images
The GitHub Package Registry is available for beta testing and allows us to store container images in it, basically giving us the same functionality as the Docker Hub. However...
2019-10-23
58 reads
Running SQL Server containers as non-root
Recently I noticed that Microsoft uploaded a new dockerfile to the mssql-docker repository on Github. This dockerfile was under the mssql-server-linux-non-root directory and (you guessed it) allows SQL Server...
2019-09-25 (first published: 2019-09-18)
1,001 reads
Use port forwarding to access SQL Server running in Kubernetes
A really handy feature in Kubernetes is port forwarding. This can be used to narrow down an issue when connections are failing to SQL Server running in a cluster....
2019-09-17 (first published: 2019-09-04)
1,012 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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