Mixed Extents EightKB

In this episode, we talk with Erin Stellato and Drew Skwiers-Koballa about working on the Microsoft Tools Team, some of the considerations and challenges when creating tools, and at the end, Erin turns the tables on the unsuspecting hosts!

GUESTS
Erin Stellato - https://twitter.com/erinstellato
Drew Skwiers-Koballa - https://twitter.com/SysAdminDrew

RESOURCES
SQL Server Feedback - https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/forum/04fe6ee0-3b25-ec11-b6e6-000d3a4f0da0
Azure Data Studio Feedback - https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/issues
Installing SSMS without ADS - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms?view=sql-server-ver15#installation-with-azure-data-studio
David Shiflet on Twitter (responsible for a lot of the work open-sourcing SMO) - https://twitter.com/shueybubbles
Open Source SMO - https://github.com/microsoft/sqlmanagementobjects
Go SQLCMD - https://github.com/microsoft/go-sqlcmd
MSSQL-CLI - https://github.com/dbcli/mssql-cli/

In this episode, we talk with Aaron Bertrand and Andy Mallon about the challenges of patching and maintenace, and trade a few of our own maintenance and patching nightmares.

GUESTS
Andy Mallon (he/him)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AMtwo
Blog: https://am2.co/

Aaron Bertrand (he/him)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronBertrand
Blog: https://sqlblog.org/

RESOURCES
Andy's DBA Database: http://am2.co/dbadb
Aaron's post on Indirect Checkpoints: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/7108/sql-server-indirect-checkpoints-why-enable/
EightKB/Mixed Extents Bonfire Store: https://www.bonfire.com/store/eightkb/

Intro sound from Freesound: https://freesound.org/people/Kleber_KGF/sounds/354019/

In this episode, we talk about skills we would expect a new DBA to have, how we learn new things, and how special Mark's SQL Server environment is.

GUESTS
Andrew Pruski
Blog: https://dbafromthecold.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbafromthecold

Mark Wilkinson
Blog: https://markw.dev
Twitter: https://twitter.com/m82labs

Anthony Nocentino
Blog: https://centinosystems.com/blog
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nocentino

RESOURCES
EightKB Homepage: https://eightkb.online
EightKB/Mixed Extents Bonfire Store: https://www.bonfire.com/store/eightkb/

Intro sound from Freesound: https://freesound.org/people/Kleber_KGF/sounds/354019/

In this episode, we talk with Argenis Fernandez and Brian Gianforcaro about SQLPAL past, present, and future.

GUESTS
Argenis Fernandez
Blog: https://www.0xsql.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DBArgenis

Brian Gianforcaro
Blog: https://bjg.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bgianf

RESOURCES
M# - www.msharp.co.uk
Drawbridge paper - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/asplos2011-drawbridge.pdf
Medori OS - http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
All Systems GO - Debug Bridge https://bjg.io/conferences/all-systems-go-2019/
P-Mem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_memory
CHERI - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

TPC-H Results
- http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results5.asp?resulttype=all&version=3
- http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results5.asp?resulttype=all&version=2

Intro sound from Freesound: https://freesound.org/people/Kleber_KGF/sounds/354019/

In this episode we talk about the upcoming EightKB Summer Edition 2021, our thoughts on the sessions, and why we were too lazy to record an episode last month!

GUESTS
Andrew Pruski
Blog: https://dbafromthecold.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbafromthecold

Mark Wilkinson
Blog: https://markw.dev
Twitter: https://twitter.com/m82labs

Anthony Nocentino
Blog: https://centinosystems.com/blog
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nocentino

RESOURCES
EightKB Homepage: https://eightkb.online
EightKB/Mixed Extents Bonfire Store: https://www.bonfire.com/store/eightkb/

Intro sound from Freesound: https://freesound.org/people/Kleber_KGF/sounds/354019/

In this episode we talk with William Durkin and Gianluca Sartori about monitoring software, building your own custom solutions, and Mark teaches us how to spell EightKB.

Help Support EightKB and Mixed Extents! Check out our shirts and hoodies at our bonfire store: https://bonfire.com/store/eightkb

GUESTS
William Durkin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sql_williamd
Web: https://datamasterminds.io/

Gianluca Sartori
Twitter: https://twitter.com/spaghettidba
Blog: https://spaghettidba.com/

RESOURCES
QDS Toolbox - https://github.com/channeladvisor/qdstoolbox
Pagelatch Contention Issue - https://markw.dev/tempdb-contention/
Telegraf - https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/telegraf/
Grafana - https://grafana.com/
InfluxDB - https://www.influxdata.com/