The Voice of the DBA

Investigating Azure Databricks

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

At SQL Saturday #884 – Pensacola, I dropped into Rodney Ladrum’s session on Azure Databricks (ADB) and the Traditional DBA. I had heard a bit about Databricks, and read...

2019-07-17

15 reads

Learning more Kubernetes

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I’ve been slowly working my way through the 50 days of Kubernetes (K8s). As you might have guessed if you remember my first post, this has been more than...

2019-07-15

18 reads

Great Access to Data with Google Fi

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I’ve been a subscriber to the Google Fi (formerly Project Fi) network for a couple years now. Like many of you, I depend on my mobile device for lots...

2019-07-12

11 reads

Containers make easy upgrades

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I’ve been working with containers and writing a bit about them for awhile. I find them to be fascinating and useful as a technology, and I’ve come to really...

2019-07-10

78 reads

T-SQL Tuesday #116–Always Linux

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

This month is an interesting invitation from Tracy Boggiano. It’s on Linux, which I like. I hadn’t thought about this in terms of T-SQL Tuesday, but I think it...

2019-07-09

3 reads

Learning More about Kubernetes (K8s)

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I know a bit about this, but I’m always looking for more. I had the chance to see Brendon Burns recently and I was impressed. That is one seriously...

2019-07-08

119 reads

Taxing Travels

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

It was a long weekend of travel for me not too long ago, starting at 4:30am on Friday and ending at 7:30pm Sunday night. This was for SQL Saturday...

2019-07-05

5 reads

Come See the Future of Database DevOps at SQL Sat Austin

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I’ll be coming to SQL Saturday #890 – Austin in just over a week. Austin is a great technology town, and this should be one of the larger SQL...

2019-07-03

24 reads

Getting Started with Spawn

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

I’m excited that the Redgate Foundry is working on some cool projects. The Future of DevOps is one and part of that work is with Spawn. I’ve played with...

2019-07-16 (first published: 2019-07-01)

326 reads

Honored to be a Microsoft MVP

• by Steve Jones

• The Voice of the DBA

Today is the renewal date for Microsoft MVPs. I received an email a short while ago informing me that I was being awarded again for the July 2019 –...

2019-07-01

10 reads