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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(…)

OpenSSH is now available on Windows 10

A couple of days ago, the Windows 10 april 2018 update was installed on my laptop. And what, you may say? Well, surprisingly this update provides some interesting “hidden” features and one of them concerns(…)

Windocks – a different way to use SQL Server on Docker

I spent some times to write blog posts about SQL Server on Docker since few months and you likely noticed it concerned mainly SQL Server on Linux. But what about SQL Server on Docker and Windows? If you take a(…)

Load Balancing with Docker Swarm mode and SQL Server containers

Docker swarm mode provides an easy way to publish ports for services. Indeed, in this mode all nodes participate in an ingress routing mesh and accept connections to any service port published. Thus, all incoming requests are routed to available(…)

Managing SQL Server sa credentials with Docker secrets on Swarm

A couple of weeks ago, I was working on a MSSQL Server docker image in a context of Hidora, a swiss cloud provider based on jelastic and for Docker-based applications. When writing(…)