February 14, 2025 at 12:00 am
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February 14, 2025 at 6:40 am
My plan is to start with Linux Mint in springtime on my home machine because my Windows 10 machine will not be supported after autumn.
On the topic of SQL Server & containers, what is the appeal of SQL Servers in containers? Containers are stateless and SQL Server instances are very much stateful.
Is an SQL Server container spun up, a DB restored, work done and the DB backed up again? Or is the DB disposable and it is simply used as a fast SQL engine giving an output but leaving nothing behind? And if containers are used to scale out, how is the data in the DBs merged? Merge-replication? GUIDs? How does one prevent the problems that constraints are there to prevent: doubled entries, conflicting entries and so on.
Containers seem to me to be very much a part of the application layer — they do a job very well and can be increased in number at speed and at ease. What am I missing?
February 14, 2025 at 9:44 am
Years ago the company I worked for did a set of Saturday boot camps. We were introduced to the very basics of Linux.
About a decade ago I did the equivalent of https://www.edx.org/learn/linux/the-linux-foundation-introduction-to-linux#syllabus. The course I did had a couple of chapters worshipping Linus Torvalds but after that it was brilliant. It is a granite foundation of knowledge that I use virtually every day.
I was so impressed by what I learned I wrote Bash for ETL Processing as an article on this site. I've learned more since then but rarely use much beyond that initial EdX course
February 14, 2025 at 3:57 pm
Wouldn't you need to learn how to configure the network adapter on a Linux machine? Or do people just use DHCP?
That seems to be my biggest crux, because it seems like every distribution, heck, even every other version of the same distribution, changes something about how or where the network configuration is or is done.
February 14, 2025 at 8:59 pm
My plan is to start with Linux Mint in springtime on my home machine because my Windows 10 machine will not be supported after autumn.
On the topic of SQL Server & containers, what is the appeal of SQL Servers in containers? Containers are stateless and SQL Server instances are very much stateful.
Is an SQL Server container spun up, a DB restored, work done and the DB backed up again? Or is the DB disposable and it is simply used as a fast SQL engine giving an output but leaving nothing behind? And if containers are used to scale out, how is the data in the DBs merged? Merge-replication? GUIDs? How does one prevent the problems that constraints are there to prevent: doubled entries, conflicting entries and so on.
Containers seem to me to be very much a part of the application layer — they do a job very well and can be increased in number at speed and at ease. What am I missing?
Try applying a CU. It's very quick in a container. I use them for db work, with the /data and /backup files mapped to permanent storage.
It also means its super easy to stop and release those resources to the OS or other tasks.
February 14, 2025 at 9:02 pm
Wouldn't you need to learn how to configure the network adapter on a Linux machine? Or do people just use DHCP?
That seems to be my biggest crux, because it seems like every distribution, heck, even every other version of the same distribution, changes something about how or where the network configuration is or is done.
I don't have a linux machine. I either have containers, or I connect to a Linux machine, which already has this configured.
My point is most of us aren't building Linux machines or installing this, we're connecting to servers already set up and don't need much.
February 17, 2025 at 9:04 pm
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February 18, 2025 at 10:46 am
Your comments about the Intro to Linux course really encouraging, David Poole! I'm slogging through that Edx course (I'm still very near the beginning) because I need more Linux knowledge to support our Oracle on Linux servers.
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