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SQL Server and Microsoft Defender: A Slow Combination

We are currently migrating our larger databases to SQL Server 2019. While the migration went smoothly for the small databases, there was an unexpected problem with the last server: the backup was incredibly slow.

The first larger database we moved to the new server took 10 times longer to back up than on the old server (50 minutes instead of 5). If the backup time would proportionally increase with the database size, our biggest database would use the whole maintenance window just for the backup task. We had to fix this problem immediately.

How to Create a Dev Container for Ruby Apps

Last week we looked at the reason why we should use dev containers to write code. This week we create a dev container to develop a Ruby application on a machine that has no Ruby installed.

Why would you do that? Tools like rbenv are a great help to manage your Ruby environments. However, getting the right Ruby interpreter is only part of the setup. You need all your Gems and 3rd party tools in the right version, or nothing goes. My machine has no Ruby installed and by the end of this post I will run my Ruby Gem

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C:\>ruby

'ruby' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.