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Deploying SQL Server on Azure virtual machine with Terraform

02.07.2019 by Microsoft Team

We are entering now to the infrastructure as code world and provisioning a SQL Server infrastructure is not excluded from the equation. This is especially true when it comes the Cloud regardless we are using IaaS or PaaS. One(…)

DevOps

Windocks and K8s support

28.06.2019 by Microsoft Team

I got recently the 4.08 update from the Windocks team and I was very excited to evaluate some of new features. The first cool one I want to present in this blog concerns the Kubernetes support(…)

Development & Performance

RCSI with foreign keys, NULL values and paramater sniffing behavior

04.04.2019 by Microsoft Team

In this blog post let’s go back to the roots (DBA concern) with a discussion with one of my friends about a weird transaction locking issue. In fact, this discussion was specifically around two questions. The(…)

Cloud

Windocks, SQL Server and Azure in our internal CI pipeline

31.03.2019 by Microsoft Team

During the last DevOps Day in Geneva, I presented a sample of our CI implementation related to our MSSQL DMK maintenance product(…)

Cloud

How To Push An Image Into Amazon ECR With Docker

19.03.2019 by Microsoft Team

8 Steps To Push An Image Into Amazon ECR With Docker Please bear in mind that Amazon elastic container registry (ECR) is a managed AWS Docker registry service. In this topic, we will use the Docker CLI to(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Upgrading SQL Server pods on K8s and helm charts

13.03.2019 by Microsoft Team

It has been while since my last blog. Today it is about continuing with helm charts and how to upgrade / downgrade SQL Server containers to a specific cumulative update. My first write-up in my to-do list. Last(…)

SQL Server

SQL Konferenz 2019 – Day 1

06.03.2019 by Microsoft Team

For my first “dbi visit”, I went to Darmstadt, in Germany, to attend SQL Konferenz 2019. There were more than 50 sessions over two days (20 & 21.02.2019) in several areas as SQL Administration, BI, DevOps, Azure & BigData.

Cloud

How To Create A Recovery Services Vault In Azure

05.03.2019 by Microsoft Team

Creating A Recovery Services Vault In Azure To create a recovery services vault, we first need to create a resource group by using either the CLI or the Azure interface. Creating a resource group using the(…)

Cloud

How To Deploy A New Container Group Using Azure PowerShell

14.02.2019 by Microsoft Team

Deploying A New Container Group Using Azure PowerShell Before starting, a MSDN account is needed to use the Azure platform, please refer to your manager for further information. In this tutorial, the PowerShell commandlets will be used to deploy a Windows image that packages(…)

Cloud

How To Create A New Container Group Using Azure CLI

14.02.2019 by Microsoft Team

Steps To Create A New Container Group Using Azure CLI Before starting to create a container group, a MSDN account is needed to use the Azure platform, please refer to your manager for further information. In this tutorial, the(…)