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Monitor Microsoft SQL Server with Zabbix

13.11.2023 by Olivier Spiesser

In this blog post, we will quickly see what is required to monitor a Microsoft SQL Server with Zabbix. Agent Setup Agent setup is not required by MSSQL by ODBC template; thus this step can be skipped. Setup Monitoring Account(…)

Ansible

An overview of “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration” event by dbi services

17.05.2023 by Elisa Usai

Is the Oracle Cloud a hot topic for you? dbi services organized an event about the Cloud today in Lausanne: "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration".

Database Administration & Monitoring

Debugging SQL Server containers considerations

05.09.2019 by Microsoft Team

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(…)

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(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Deploying SQL Server on K8s with Helm charts

18.12.2018 by Microsoft Team

During the last DockerCon EU in Barcelona, I heard a lot about Helm with K8s architectures. It was also a good opportunity to write about it after attending to this conference. In a nutshell, Helm(…)

Database management

SQL Server on Linux – I/O internal thoughts

24.07.2018 by Microsoft Team

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(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Dealing with automatic restart and SQL Docker containers

20.06.2018 by Microsoft Team

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(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Introducing SQL managed instances on Azure

13.06.2018 by Microsoft Team

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(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Dealing with ugrade scenarios for SQL Server on Docker and Swarm

06.06.2018 by Microsoft Team

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(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Windocks – a different way to use SQL Server on Docker

24.05.2018 by Microsoft Team

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(…)