Today I’m quite happy to announce my upcoming SQLpassion Online Training for April. I have reworked the content of my already famous SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting Workshop, were I concentrate now more on the current VM and Hypervisor configuration for SQL Server. I will also give you a lot of ...

If you have told me a week ago that we have a partial curfew in Austria, and that we have to teach our children at home, I would have told you, that you are insane. A week later our whole life has changed, and our country is almost locked down. What does this mean ...

Over the last few weeks I have already blogged a lot about SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters. In today’s blog posting I want to give you an overview how you can actually work with Big Data Clusters, and what makes them so interesting to you. Overview The idea of ...

Deploying a SQL Server Big Data Cluster is a very simple process, because everything is fully automated with the azdata tool as I have shown in my previous blog posting. When you have finally a successful deployment, you will get in sum 21 Kubernetes Pods, which are hosting 45 Docker ...

If you want to get your hands dirty with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, the easiest way is to deploy it in Azure Kubernetes Services. But there are also other options available. You can deploy a single-node or multi-node SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster in locally hosted Virtual ...