T-SQL Tuesday #133: What (Else) Have I Learned from Presenting? from Blog Posts

T-SQL Tuesday #133: What (Else) Have I Learned from Presenting? from Blog Posts - SQLServerCentral

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Lisa Bohm (b | t) and it’s about what else I have learned through presenting. It has to be something technical did not relate to the presentation we were preparing. We should all right about learning PowerPoint (jk) although I did learn to put on subtitles to get closed captioning.

What I learned unintentionally is more about using Linux than I ever intended to know at that point and time. We had implemented the TIG (Telgraf/InfluxDB/Grafana) stack at work but I wasn’t the one who implemented but had talked to the person who had about using in presentations and they were OK if I did, but Linux was something I hadn’t used in like 20 years.

So first off, what flavor of Linux was I going to use. So I took to Pluralsight to learn some basics of Linux taking the path down the RedHat certification path. Where the instructor was using CentOS because it was free and close to RedHat in commands. Wow that was a learning curve, everything was a command prompt taking me back to seventh grade and MSDOS 3.3 that I learned back then.

First, I installed Influxdb and Grafana, got Telegraf going on my SQL Server instance but umm couldn’t even load the interface for Grafana to discover when you install a program on Linux unlike windows the services aren’t set to automatically set to start and not only that the ports aren’t open on the firewall. Everything is locked down, which is probably a good thing. But wow a lot of Googling happened.

Then there was editing the config files for Telgraf on a Linux SQL Instance. I had to learn how to navigate VIM. Boy that brought back memories but none that helped me remember how to use it.

All be said and done I need to learn some Linux lots of it to proficient in it. So maybe I should go back and finish those Pluralsight classes, but I also want to learn containers and get Azure certified, geez which thing can I do?