Anthony E. Nocentino

Fun (well, for me :-) ) on a Friday....looking at startup scripts in SQL Server containers

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Excellent post.

New blog post...A first look at SQL Server running in KubeVirt

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Totally agree with this approach.

I used to teach an AG design class and the fist lesson was don’t. If you have good automation and it can get you back online in your RPO…do that!

Natively or in a Windows VM?

AI is just an access method to data. Remember it’s the data that matters.

Now that’s saying something.

Thanks Klaus! Means a ton coming from you :)

1. Yea I need to find that issue. But you get the result just above that in the json output. 2. Shouldn’t be too hard. There’s a driver for it and we’d beed to adjust a few environment variables and the scripts to support it.

Good luck on what’s next friend!

Same. One of the best.

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SQL Server 2025 Brings AI-Powered Semantic Search to Local and Cloud Data -- Redmondmag.com A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

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Totes. Sonnet is amazing.

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I thought this was just me. I’m so glad I’m not alone.

Async I/O on Linux in databases https://blog.canoozie.net/async-i-o-on-linux-and-durability/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622454)

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OH: “I can write your data on an index card and hand it to you faster”

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“Scale out”

I am very excited.