SQL Server on Physical Machine Best Practices
The intent of this post is a quick reference guide based on the recommendation made on Pure Storage Support page in the Microsoft Platform Guide . The target audience...
2021-10-08
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Anthony Nocentino Blog
Measuring SQL Server File Latency
This post is a reference post for retrieving IO statistics for data and log files in SQL Server. We’ll look at where we can find IO statistics in SQL...
2021-11-29 (first published: 2021-10-06)
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Best Practices for SQL Server on VMware - Distilled
The intent of this post is a quick reference guide based on the recommendation made in “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere” April 2019 version. The target audience...
2021-09-29
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Setting Permissions on Files Inside a Container for SQL Server
This post will walk you through setting file permissions on database files copied into a container. The SQL Server process sqlservr running in containers runs as the non-privileged user...
2021-10-08 (first published: 2021-09-25)
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My Desktop Setup - Updated
Every once in a while when I’m recording a Pluralsight course, I’ll take a photo of my desk to let people see the behind the scenes of the process....
2021-09-17
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Pure Storage Flasharray SQL Server Snapshot Torture...You Kinda Asked for This
By Argenis Fernandez
This post is archived here. Pleae reach out to me, Anthony Nocentino if you have any questions.
I gotta admit, some of you are really hard to convince....
2021-09-15
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Updated Pluralsight Course – Managing Kubernetes Controllers and Deployments
My updated course “Managing Kubernetes Controllers and Deployments” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right...
2021-09-14
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Setting Trace Flags and Configuring SQL Server in Kubernetes
In this blog post, we will walk through a few examples of configuring SQL Server in Kubernetes. First, we will create a Deployment for SQL Server, override the container’s...
2021-09-12
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Setting Trace Flags and Configuring SQL Server Containers
In this blog post, we will walk through a few examples of how to configure SQL Server in Docker Containers. First, we will configure a container at runtime by...
2021-09-12
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2021-09-06
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“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
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Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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