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...
2024-11-22 (first published: 2024-11-19)
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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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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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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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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 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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In the latest version of Docker Desktop a new command has been included call docker debug. Now this is only available with a Pro Docker licence but it’s an...
2024-02-12 (first published: 2024-01-30)
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To build a custom Docker image we create a docker file with instructions in it. For example, a really simple custom SQL Server 2019 Docker image can be built...
2024-01-19 (first published: 2024-01-05)
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When I first started working with SQL on Linux one of the first things I did was to remove the default the [BUILTINAdministrators] login. This is pretty much standard...
2023-12-27 (first published: 2023-12-15)
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