🚀 Containers ≠ black magic. @dbafromthecold.com showed us how to go from #Docker to #Kubernetes with real-world clarity at #PSConfEU 25: ✔️ Persistent data ✔️ StatefulSets ✔️ Secrets & YAML configs ✔️ SQL Server in K8s 🎟️ Tix open for 2026 → psconf.eu #PowerShell

*Checks inbox* Ah beans....

What theme is everyone using for SSMS 22? I like mystical forest :-)

I'm getting on a plane

You have about one week left to submit your abstracts to @datasatsto.se. Beautiful early-summer Stockholm awaits! sessionize.com/data-saturda...

Same

Happy New Year to everyone out there 2025 was something eh? Let's see what 2026 brings

Fantastic conference 100% recommend

I took some personal 2025 numbers and put them in a blogpost: ifthenels.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/m...

Today's editorial: Finding Motivation voiceofthedba.com/2025/12/31/f...

Year in Review 2025, Part II: dbakevlar.com/2025/12/2025...

Docker Hardened Images are now free! FROM dhi‌.io‌/node:24 From this moment on, you can use the near-zero-CVE Docker images as your base images, for free! Learn more here:

Hey all, just a reminder that the @dataceili.bsky.social call for speakers is open! dbafromthecold.com/2025/12/16/d... #sqlserver #fabric #powerbi #sql2025 #conference

We're back! Join us for summer in Dublin!

Is it bad form to start off a conference talk with... "I hate this technology, I hate it with the fire of a thousand suns" Asking for, err, a friend

#MicrosoftFabric & #PowerBI Wales user group schedule set for 2026. We run a monthly online session. Happy to accommodate shorter talks or 50+50 if you want to trial ahead of bits! Thanks to @sessionize.com for supporting user groups with free services 👌 sessionize.com/fabricpowerb...

Following on from my previous post...this next one dives into Performance Tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server dbafromthecold.com/2025/12/11/p... #sqlserver #kubernetes #sqlblog #containers

Still performance testing SQL Server in KubeVirt vs a StatefulSet in Kubernetes # KubeVirt TEST RESULT : System achieved 46563 NOPM from 108184 SQL Server TPM # StatefulSet TEST RESULT : System achieved 47200 NOPM from 109554 SQL Server TPM Pretty much there!

New blog post...A first look at SQL Server running in KubeVirt dbafromthecold.com/2025/12/02/r... #sqlserver #kubernetes #containers #sql2025 #vmware

Phew, demos! Really enjoyed presenting my Chaos Engineering session at Data Saturday Madrid Thank you to all who attended, hope it was useful!

Sitting in my hotel room that is literally shaking due to an underground train, trying to work out how to get where I need to go Google maps says to get a bus DON'T TELL ME THERE'S NO TRAIN. I CAN FEEL THE TRAIN. HOW DO I GET TO THE TRAIN

Woo, heading out and over to speak at Data Saturday Madrid! Haven't been to Madrid for years, really looking forward to the event!

Call for speakers: Groningen Data Platform Meetup Lighting Talks! - https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?u=b8db1e2ab2a0ee1aa69c8bb27&id=e13d53e282

Off and out to Ignite! Will be at either the Microsoft Community Hub or the Pure Storage booth if you want to come and say hi!

This hit a little close to home for me :-)

The latest Data Exposed episode is out! I jumped on to talk about cloning databases to Kubernetes! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

If you missed our talked, We have a post on #kubernetes blog discussing the plans to archive Ingress-nginx - Project is getting archived in March 2026 - No dependency updates, bug fixes, releases - Images available, Helm charts - Not gonna break deployments www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/11...

Ahhhhh this is going to be a rough 70 minutes #WALvARG

Yesterday was a fantastic day of rugby Today won't be 😅

The image that launched a thousand rugby memes

I've seen a few mad setups in my IT career (admittedly mostly built by myself) but SQL Server on Windows in KubeVirt is right up there

Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025 dbafromthecold.com/2025/10/31/a... #sqlblog #sqlserver #sql2025

Someone made a killing on illuminous yellow boots #IREvNZL

Super harsh. #IREvNZL

Not a bad evening here

Oh this is gonna be good

Took me a while here in Japan but... what must be done shall be done

Ah yeah, found my way back

Think we took a wrong turn somewhere, this doesnt look like County Mayo

Cool shot of me speaking @shipitcon.bsky.social last week on Chaos Engineering. Massive thank you to the organisers and volunteers....was a great conference and I hope to be back!

Hey look - it's another video! This time, we'll be creating #sqlserver docker containers using #vscode. I even create a #postgres docker container as well. Take a look and let me know what you think!

Yeeeeeaaaaahhh!

Burrito Bot update! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What an amazing EightKB this year! Amazing sessions, my head is totally melted!

Todays the day for #eightKB @eightkb.online Whats that? It's a free, fun and mind melting online conference covering topics around data internals. eightkb.online #sqlserver #sql #internals #data #azure #mysql #postgresql

Don't forget that @eightkb.online is happening. Don't miss it! If you miss it, there should be vods. If you miss the vods, I dunno really, they're not taken down, watch them instead of staring off into despair while looking at your to-do list... Also, don't put "watch the vods" on your to-do list!

Today is the day! EightKB is happening at 13:00 UTC Join us and over 1000 registered attendees for 5 in-depth technical sessions. Registration is still open and available here: - eightkb.online

One week to go until this year's edition of EightKB! We have amazing in-depth technical sessions on SQL Server internals, delivered by expert speakers! Registration is completely free and available here: - eightkb.online #sql #sqlserver #conferences #sql2025

Hands up everyone who won't use AI images in their presentations

Come join my #sqlserver execution plan precon at @datasatoslo.bsky.social on August 28. Tickets are still available: www.eventbrite.com/e/mastering-...