I wanted to do some testing of SQL Server 2025 on my laptop. I have written before how I avoided installing SQL Server on the laptop and use containers instead. This post looks at adding a new version on the default port.This page on MSLearn shows how to run the SQL Server 2025 container. I started here, when searching for “SQL Server 2025 container” on Google.It was nice to see this updated for 2025, and if I scroll down, I can see the docker container to pull. This is the important thing for me to add a new version of…
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Modern applications increasingly run on cloud-native environments, with microservices deployed across packaging containers, VMs and managed systems. While development and staging environments help capture bugs early, the actual check often occurs in production, in which actual patron usage can cause complex, sudden disasters. Debugging in production requires a robust approach, and that’s where observability through logs, metrics and traces becomes important. Pillars of Observability Observability relies on three core data types: 1. LogsDescription: Textual statistics of activities within a device, which include mistakes, warnings and informational messages. Strengths: Rich for debugging; can encompass stack traces, request payloads and timestamps. Use Case: ‘A user triggers a…
If you know a bit about the popover API in HTML, you might know it’s basically 1) click a button 2) toggle visibility of another element. Una has a great article explaining that there is a bit more to it. First, there are actually three kinds of popovers. There is the normal kind, which close when you click away (or ESC). If you don’t want that, there is the “manual” kind which requires very explicit closing and lives an isolated life, not affecting other popups. The new kind, “hint”, is an in-betweener where it can be opened without closing other…
Docker @ Black Hat 2025: CVEs have everyone’s attention, here’s the path forward At Black Hat 2025, CVEs dominated the conversation. See how Docker Hardened Images, proven security patterns, and AI-ready foundations help teams eliminate security debt, enforce compliance, and build trust from code to production.
Atlassian’s Bitbucket Cloud has tightly integrated CI/CD capabilities via its Bitbucket Pipelines feature set. However, some of our Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Data Center customers still use Jenkins for CI/CD. In this blog, I present a practical walkthrough of the benefits of Bitbucket Pipelines over a tool like Jenkins in the context of two key stats from our recent State of DevEx 2025 report. These stats serve serve as motivation for why teams should move to a tightly integrated, cloud native SAAS offerings like Bitbucket Cloud with Bitbucket Pipelines, rather than self-hosted on-prem CI/CD tools like Jenkins. What is DevEx…
Over the years, I’ll admit, SQL Server has come a long way in making life easier for database administrators and with each version it keeps getting better and better. The installation process bakes in more best practices than ever, default settings are smarter, and cloud offerings like Azure SQL and managed instances take a lot of the heavy lifting off our plates. Backups, high availability, patching—all of these are more streamlined than they used to be. It’s tempting to think this means DBAs don’t need to know the “nuts and bolts” or “how things work under the hood” anymore.But here’s…
This weekend was one of my favorite Data Saturday events, Data Saturday Columbus! If you’re in the area, I highly recommend it. Always some great speakers, amazing lunch, and super engaged folks hungry to learn. Thank you to everyone who came out for an 8:30 AM session on Decoding Fabric Licensing, the questions were great and I really loved all the conversations after the session! Also, hope you all enjoyed the peanut butter cookies Event link: https://datasaturdays.com/Event/20250816-datasaturday0071My presentation: https://github.com/Anytsirk12/DataOnWheels/tree/main/2025%20Presentations/2025%20Data%20Saturday%20ColumbusLenore Flower, myself, Jason Romans from SML!Sheila Romans, myself, Lenore Flower, Jason Romans, Tony WilhelmPower BI Directory: Enhancing Data Navigation and User…
“Why do you spend so much time creating artifacts before telling your AI agent to start coding?” This is a question that reveals a growing disconnect in how many teams are approaching AI in software development. While AI continues to advance rapidly, simply plugging it into an integrated development environment (IDE) and asking for code isn’t enough. Today’s AI agents can navigate codebases, interpret architectural documentation, analyze logs, execute CLI commands and, in some cases, even ship entire pull requests. In fact, some agents have gone from contributing just 10-15% of code generation to 50-60% of it. According to Stack Overflow, 82%…
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience.Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others.The five job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…
From where I stand, the decision between Cosmos DB and a traditional SQL database often wants to be chosen between a sports car and a reliable sedan. Both will get you where you need to go, but the experience, trade-offs, and underlying engineering philosophies are worlds apart. In this post, I want to walk through why I lean one way in some projects and the other way in different contexts, weaving in lessons I’ve picked up along the way.Embracing the No-SQL MindsetCosmos DB isn’t just a database, it’s a distributed, multi-model platform that challenges you to think differently about data.…