Anthony Nocentino's Blog

Today, I’m proud to announce that I have been renewed as an Microsoft MVP – Data Platform for the 2018-2019 award year, my second MVP award.

I’m proud to announce the completion of my first Pluralsight Learning Path.

So in yesterday’s post we learned that the OpenSSH client is included with the Windows 10, Update 1803!

Today is a big day!

Speaking at SQLSaturday Atlanta!

Folks in the Linux world are used to moving SSH keys to and from systems enabling password-less authentication.

My new course “LFCE: Linux Service Management – Advanced HTTP Services” in now available on Pluralsight here!

I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018 on the conference runs from April 9th 2018 through April 12th 2018.

Update - head on over to Andrew Pruski’s blog to find out how to get this to work!

Over the past year we’ve learned about how SQL Server on Linux is implemented, leveraging SQLPAL and the team is pretty confident in their architectural decisions as indicated in this post here.

On 12/13 I’m presenting two, back to back, sessions on SQL Server on Linux online.

Here are my top 5 reasons why I thing SQL Server on Linux is Legit!

There was a question this morning on the SQL Server Community Slack channel from SvenLowry about how to launch SQL Server on Linux in Single User Mode.

New Pluralsight Course – SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals My new course **“SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals”** in now available on Pluralsight <a href="https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/sql-linux-administration-fundamenta…

In this blog post we’re going to cover systemd, process exit codes and highlight how systemd reacts in certain exit conditions from SQL Server on Linux.

PASS Summit is right around the corner and I’ll be there speaking on Monitoring Linux Performance for the SQL Server Admin!

In this blog post we’re going to explore how SQL Server on Linux responds to external memory pressure.

I’m proud to announce that I will be delivering two sessions at IT/Dev Connections in San Francisco!

My new course “LFCE: Linux Service Management – HTTP Services” in now available on Pluralsight here!

Earlier this week Ned Otter (@NedOtter) brought up a question about Instant File Initialization on SQL Server on Linux, check out the thread here.

So I’ve been using dbatools for automated restore tasks and came across a SQL Server Agent job that I wrote that was reporting success but the job was actually failing.

A few weeks back several SQL Server bloggers discussed their academic pasts…well here I’m going to let you in on a little secret of mine too.

Next week I’ll be speaking at TechMentor in Redmond, I’m doing a 1/2 day workshop on Linux OS Fundamentals for the Windows Admin be sure to come see me!

I’ll be speaking at TechMentor, August 7-11 at Microsoft HQ in Redmond.

I’m very pleased to announce that I will be speaking at PASS Summit 2017!

This past year has certainly been interesting in the world of Linux.

Speaking at SQLSaturday Sacramento!

With SQL Server on Linux, Microsoft has recognized that they’re opening up their products to a new set of users.

In our previous post we discussed how to implement OpenSSH (the plumbing) as the transport layer for PowerShell remoting.

I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Pensacola on June 3rd 2017!

So in my last post I told you about how I started my journey on learning PowerShell, let’s keep going down that path together.

Why do I use PowerShell?

Availability Groups are a fantastic way to provide high availability and disaster recovery for your databases, but it isn’t exactly the easiest thing in the world to pull off correctly.

My new course “LFCE: Network and Host Security” in now available on Pluralsight here!

Speaking at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017!

OK, so if you haven’t heard of the dbatools.io project run by Chrissy LeMaire and company…you’ve likely been living under a rock.

Where – Thursday, May 18, 2017 Where – TUGA IT – Lisbon, Portugal Full Day Session – “Open Source PowerShell on Linux – Skills to Manage Your Heterogenous Data Center“ Registration Link – https://app.weventual.com/detalheEvento.action?

Speaking at SQLSaturday Chicago!

I’m excited to announce that I have been named a Friend of Redgate for 2017.

Proactive Reporting for SQL Server If you’re a return reader of this blog you know I write often about monitoring and performance of Availability Groups.

This month I’ll be speaking to the PowerShell Virtual Chapter of PASS.

This week we started our Centino Systems weekly newsletter.

My new course “LFCE: Advanced Network and System Administration” in now available on Pluralsight here!

When designing Availability Group systems one of the first pieces of information I ask clients for is how much transaction log their databases generate.

Today, I’m proud to announce that I have been named a Microsoft MVP – Data Platform.

Speaking at SQLSaturday Nashville!

OK, so everyone wants to know how Microsoft did it…how they got SQL Server running on Linux.

Open Source PowerShell is available on several operating systems, that really what’s special about the whole project!

Open Source PowerShell has been on fire, getting tons of community support and really making people think about what’s to come with a single language to manage a heterogenous data center.

Please join me at IT/Dev Connections on Oct. 12 at 8:00AM where I’ll be hosting a Birds of a Feather session “Moving to Independent Consulting” Bring your questions!