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Windows Server container on an AKS cluster

22.03.2023 by Benoît Entzmann

A few weeks ago I participated at the dbi services bootcamp. All new employees are gathered for a refreshment of dbi services best practices. This is also an opportunity to ask questions directly to our CEO(…)

Database management

Microsoft Flexible Server Compute V5

17.03.2023 by Karsten Lenz

Today I had the chance to move forwar with performance testing and some checks on two Flexible Server – Azure Database for PostgreSQL, one with 8vCPU, 64GB RAM and 512GB Storage (2300 IOPs) and another one with the same vCPU(…)

SQL Server

SQLBits 2023 -Day 1-A day with SQL Managed Instance

15.03.2023 by Tatiana Bron

Tuesday 14.03.23 was the first day of SQLBits. This day was dedicated to the workshop, and I chose to follow “A Day with SQL Managed Instance”.During this day, we talked about provisioning, connection and configuration, security, but also data migration(…)

Cloud

Maintenance Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool (Private Endpoint) – example based on index fragmentation – password less – azure managed identity

08.03.2023 by Microsoft Team

How do you check and rebuild your indexes for Azure SQL DBs in Elastic Pool? That question is getting even more interesting if you have only Private Endpoint enabled to connect to the MSSQL DB. Lets get started! Requirements Azure(…)

Cloud

Estimate the Downtime for an Offline MS SQL Migration: On-Premise to Azure SQL Database

28.02.2023 by Microsoft Team

As you want to migrate your database workload to the Azure Cloud, you must test different aspects of the migration. An important factor for an offline migration is to estimate the duration of the migration process, so the service owner(…)

Cloud

ChatGPT vs DevOps

01.02.2023 by Benoît Entzmann

As a lot of curious people, I have experimented with ChatGPT in order to figure out if it could be helpful in my work as a DevOps consultant or even replace me (why not?). If you are also interested to(…)

Cloud

Kubernetes SSO using Azure AD: The Production Solution

04.01.2023 by Benoît Entzmann

In my previous blog I’ve detailed the tests we did regarding SSO in Kubernetes using Azure AD. I’ve described all the steps of our research on this topic in order to give our readers a real(…)

Cloud

Kubernetes SSO using Azure AD

22.12.2022 by Benoît Entzmann

I’ve worked on this project to authenticate Kubernetes users against Azure AD and so have Single Sign-On (SSO). That was a long journey on a rocky road and it’s worth summarising in this blog all the steps required to make(…)

Cloud

Installing Azure AZ Module on Windows

30.11.2022 by Nathan Courtine

Since Azure (or AzureRM) module is marked as deprecated some years ago, AZ module is the official replacement to manage Azure resources with PowerShell. This module is running with at least PowerShell 7.0.6 LTS (Long Term Support) or(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Azure SQL Managed Instance link feature overview

24.11.2022 by Stéphane Savorgnano

In one of my last blog-posts I spoke about Striim which is a data replication platform that can be used for migrations but also for offloaded reporting or even real-time analytics.A new Azure feature, currently on preview, named Link(…)