EightKB 2025
EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2025…it’s all happening on August the 21st! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit...
2025-03-28 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Visualising SQL Server in Kubernetes
The other day I came across an interesting repo on github, KubeDiagrams. What this repo does is generate Kubernetes architecture diagrams from Kubernetes manifest files…nice! Deploying applications to Kubernetes...
2025-02-17 (first published: 2025-02-06)
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Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to really learn, you need a project. I’m a DBA by trade and as such…haven’t really...
2025-01-06 (first published: 2024-12-20)
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SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups and Kubernetes
A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless) Availability Group to seed a database from a Windows SQL instance into a pod in...
2024-12-02 (first published: 2024-11-19)
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Key mappings in Visual Studio Code
At a recent conference I was asked how I executed code during my presentation. Running code during a presentation should be as smooth as possible…so in VS Code I...
2024-10-16 (first published: 2024-09-27)
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SQL Server Cross Platform Availability Groups and Kubernetes
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into Kubernetes for test/dev purposes, and we don’t want to backup/restore. How can it be done?...
2024-08-05 (first published: 2024-07-26)
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EightKB 2024 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2024 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on August 8th (8th of the 8th…get it? 
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2024-07-03
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Automating Container Image Builds with Docker Build Cloud and Github Actions
In a previous post we went through how to use Docker Build Cloud to remotely build a Docker container image from a Github repository. In that example, we kicked...
2024-06-03 (first published: 2024-05-17)
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Building a Docker image with Docker Build Cloud
In a previous blog post we went through how to build a Docker container image from a remote (Github) repository. Here we’re going to expand on that by actually...
2024-05-10 (first published: 2024-04-25)
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EightKB 2024
EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2024…it’s all happening on August the 8th! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit...
2024-03-01 (first published: 2024-02-21)
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Blogs
The Cost of Not Having a DBA
By Kevin3NF
Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt,...
Who are you? Building an identity map.
By Brian Kelley
I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?,...
Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory
Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure...
Forums
How to update a history table with changes.
Good morning to all. I am a novice when it comes to SQL so...
How to check if credential password for TDE matches the secret key of Key Vault
Hi all, In my company we have many databases encrypted with TDE and there...
Create Raw Zone Tables using Generative AI: Data Engineering with Fabric
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create Raw Zone Tables using...
Question of the Day
Replacing a NULL II
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022?
DECLARE @value INT = NULL , @value2 VARCHAR(20) = NULL; SELECT COALESCE (@value, @value2, 100.5) AS Result; GOSee possible answers