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
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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
21 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
307 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)
318 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
5 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
14 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)
3,707 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
56 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)
998 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)
1,008 reads
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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