EightKB Summer 2021 Edition
The schedule for EightKB Summer 2021 Edition has been announced! Here’s the schedule: – N.B. – I particularly like that if you click on the session on the website,...
2021-07-02 (first published: 2021-06-15)
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Running a SQL Server container from scratch
I’ve been interested (obsessed?) with running SQL Server in containers for a while now, ever since I saw how quick and easy it was to spin one up. That...
2021-05-24 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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Converting a SQL Server Docker image to a WSL2 Distribution
Windows Subsystem for Linux is probably my favourite feature of Windows 10. It gives us the ability to run full blown linux distributions on our Windows 10 desktop. This...
2021-04-15 (first published: 2021-04-13)
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Creating presentations with Reveal and Github pages
I really don’t like Powerpoint. I’ll do pretty much anything to avoid writing a presentation in it. Thankfully for the last few years there’s been a service called GitPitch...
2021-02-26 (first published: 2021-02-21)
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EightKB is coming!
The next EightKB is coming on January 27th, kicking off at 2pm UTC. Once again we have 5 mind melting sessions on 5 in-depth SQL Server internals topics, from...
2021-01-13 (first published: 2021-01-07)
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Provisioning storage for Azure SQL Edge running on a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster
In a previous post we went through how to setup a Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pis and then deploy Azure SQL Edge to it. In this post I want...
2020-12-16 (first published: 2020-12-07)
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Updating my Kubernetes Raspberry Pi Cluster to containerd
There’s been a lot of conversations happening on twitter over the last couple of days due to the fact that Docker is deprecated in Kubernetes v1.20. If you want...
2020-12-03
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Building a Raspberry Pi cluster to run Azure SQL Edge on Kubernetes
A project I’ve been meaning to work on for a while has been to build my own Kubernetes cluster running on Raspberry Pis. I’ve been playing around with Kubernetes...
2020-12-11 (first published: 2020-11-30)
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Differences between using a Load Balanced Service and an Ingress in Kubernetes
What is the difference between using a load balanced service and an ingress to access applications in Kubernetes? Basically, they achieve the same thing. Being able to access an...
2020-12-02 (first published: 2020-11-23)
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EightKB is back!
We’re back! The first EightKB back in July was a real blast. Five expert speakers delivered mind-melting content to over 1000 attendees! We were honestly blown away by how...
2020-11-30 (first published: 2020-11-18)
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Blogs
Microsoft finally adds Tenant Switcher for Fabric / Power BI
Praise whatever deity you believe in, because it’s finally here, a tenant switcher for...
Microsoft Releases Windows 11 ARM ISO – A Game Changer for ARM-Powered Devices
Yesterday, Microsoft released the highly anticipated Windows 11 ARM ISO image, marking a major...
Building Effective Data Governance Framework: Top Areas to Focus On
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Forums
Pull mssql to Postgres
Does anyone have a script\example that would connect to SQL server instance run a...
Fill in missing hours for each VisitID during the day
create table #T ( VisitID varchar(30), ER_Date date, HR int ) insert into #T(VisitID,...
Database copy for report work load
Hi Team, I am looking for a an help, Please see my problem below....
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The Hash Join I
What are the two inputs called to a hash join operation in SQL Server? (choose 2)
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