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How to get a big picture of K8s pods and PVs by script

A couple of weeks ago, during an internal dbi services workshop about Docker and K8s, I got an interesting question: is it possible to get a big picture of pods connected to one specific persistent volume(…)

Introducing Accelerated Database Recovery with SQL Server 2019

SQL Server 2019 RC1 was released out a few weeks ago and it is time to start blogging about my favorite core engine features that will be shipped with the next version of SQL Server. Things should not be completely(…)

Scripting is not Just a Series of Commands

I saw, several times now, scripts were it is just a series of commands, sometime just created with copy/paste and few changes. This is far from best practices in terms of readability, maintainability and debug (ability 🙂).

Debugging SQL Server containers considerations

When it comes to troubleshooting processes or to get a deeper look of how SQL Server works internally , I always used debugging tools as windbg on Windows and since SQL Server is available on Linux, I switched to(…)

Windows Docker containers, when platform matters

A couple of days ago, I got a question from a customer about an issue he ran into when trying to spin up a container on Windows.

Deploying SQL Server 2019 container on RHEL 8 with podman

Having a fresh install of RHEL8 on my lab environment, I was curious to take a look at new containerization stuff from Red Hat in the context of SQL Server 2019. Good chances are the future version of SQL Server(…)

SQL Server 2019 availability group R/W connection redirection, routing mesh and load balancing

SQL Server 2019 availability group feature will provide secondary to primary replica read/write connection redirection. I wrote about it in a previous blog post here. It consists(…)

Microsoft Inspire Partner Event 2019 / Day 3

dbi services at Microsoft Inspire Conference Core Note Satya Nadella – Day 3 The day started with the Core Note from Satya Nadella. Being alone at the conference allowed me to find one of the very last well-located seat to(…)

Microsoft Inspire Partner Event 2019 / Day 2

dbi services at Microsoft Inspire Conference SQL Server 2019 is in “public preview” stage, live from Microsoft Inspire 2019 – Day 2 Anshul Rampal (SQL Server product marketing team) and Rony Chatterjee (SQL Server Core team / Product Manager) presented(…)

Microsoft Inspire Partner Event 2019 / Day 1

dbi services at Microsoft Inspire Conference Summary of my first participation – Day 1 After 20 years in the business of IT Infrastructure, time has come to open my mind 😉 and Microsoft Inspire is the perfect opportunity. It is(…)