Linux

udev rules for ASM devices on RHEL 7

Preparing the storage devices for use with ASM is one of the first tasks you should do. When you do not want to use ASMLib then udev is what you should use for this.

Going from SLES12 SP2 to SLES12 SP3, online

SLES 12 SP3 was released some time ago and as we have customers running on that I thought it might be a good idea to test the upgrade from SP2 to SP3. Actually it turned out this(…)

SQL Server 2017 on RHEL first installation

Beginning of last week Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017 for today, the second of October. In the same time, but in a more marketing side, Microsoft announced a SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise(…)

Searching wikipedia from the command line

Wouldn't it be nice if you could search wikipedia from the command line? I often need to quickly look up a definition or want to know more about a specific topic when I am working on the command(…)

SQL Saturday Toulouse 2017: SQL Server on Linux – Slide deck

#SQLSatToulouse was definitely a great event. Firstly, a big thanks to the organization team (@Guss and @Fredg_31) as well as all the sponsors and attendees (without whom this(…)

SQL Server on Linux: Introduction to DBFS experimental tool

A couple of months ago, Microsoft announced two additional command line tools for SQL Server that are mssql-scripter and DBFS. The latter has drawn my attention because it exposes live data from SQL Server DMVs as(…)

24 HOP French edition 2017 – Session videos are available

The 2nd edition of 24HOP French Edition 2017 is over and we had great sessions about SQL Server and various topics ( SQL Server 2017 new features, Azure, PowerBI, High Availability , Linux, Hyper-convergence , Modeling …) If(…)

Prochaine édition des 24 HOP 2017 francophone

La prochaine édition du 24 Hours of PASS 2017 edition francophone se déroulera les 29-30 juin prochain. Pour rappel le format est simple: 24 webinars gratuits répartis sur 2 jours de 07:00 à 18h00 GMT et en(…)

SQL Server 2017 on Linux and some log shipping scenarios

In this blog let’s talk a little bit about the log-shipping feature from the SQL Server CTP 2.0. First of all, let’s say that as a Windows version, it is possible to create our own solution based on Linux (and(…)

SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn AGs and new read-scale architectures

As you probably know Microsoft announced an official name for SQL Server vNext during the last Microsoft Data Amp event on April 19 2017. It becomes officially SQL Serve 2017. In my first(…)