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First steps into SQL Server 2019 availability groups on K8s

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced the first public CTP version of next SQL Server version (CTP2). It is not a surprise, the SQL Server vNext becomes SQL Server 2019 and there are a plenty of(…)

Connecting to Azure SQL Managed Instance from on-premise network

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote up about my first immersion into the SQL Server managed instances (SQLMIs), a new deployment model of Azure SQL Database which provides near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server(…)

Deploying SQL Server on MiniShift / RedHat OpenShift

Currently we begin to see customer adopting containerization for SQL Server databases (mainly driven by CI/CD and DevOps trends). A lot of them are using RedHat OpenShift as container management platform. From my side, I didn’t(…)

Running SQL Server containers on K8s Docker for Windows CE stable channel

The release of Docker for Windows Stable version 18.06..0-ce-win70 comes with some great new features I looked for a while including the K8s support! That’s a pretty good news because this support has existed on Edge channel since(…)

SQL Server on Linux – I/O internal thoughts

Let’s start the story from the beginning with some funny testing I tried to perform with SQL Server on Linux a couple of months ago. At that time, I wanted to get some pictures of syscalls from SQL Server as(…)

Dealing with automatic restart and SQL Docker containers

A couple of weeks ago, a customer asked me how to restart containers automatically after a reboot of the underlying host. In his context, it was not an insignificant question because some containers are concerned by SQL Server databases and(…)

Introducing SQL managed instances on Azure

I never wrote about data platform solutions on Azure so far. The fact is in Switzerland we’re definitely late about the Cloud adoption and Azure data platform solutions. There are different reasons that are more or less valid but I(…)

Dealing with ugrade scenarios for SQL Server on Docker and Swarm

This blog post comes from an interesting experience with one customer about upgrading SQL Server on a Docker environment. Let’s set quickly the context: a production environment that includes a standalone Docker engine on the top of openSUSE Linux distribution(…)

Introducing SQL Server on Kubernetes

After spending some times with Docker Swarm let’s introduce SQL Server on Kubernetes (aka K8s). Why another container orchestrator? Well, because Microsoft gives a strong focus on Kubernetes in their documentation and their events and because K8s is probably one(…)

SQL Saturday Paris 2018 – Pré-conférence SQL Server Linux, Docker et Azure

The next SQL Saturday in Paris is coming soon and the agenda has been published by the @GUSS on twitter. Le prochain SQL Saturday Paris arrive bientôt et l’agenda a été publié sur Twitter par le @GUSS(…)