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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪

@dbafromthecold.com

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Principal Field Solutions Architect @ Pure Storage Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Docker Captain I help organise EightKB and Data Céilí He/Him

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 09/06/2026

Summer in Dublin!

Picture of a balcony covered in hail

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/05/2026

Kube-PacMan...a KubeInvaders inspired Chaos Enginnering tool to test high availability in Kubernetes!

Pac-Man being used as a chaos engineering tool to test high availability in Kubernetes

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 25/04/2026

Final day @sqlbits.bsky.social Come join me at 10am in Room 1A where we'll be talking about New Features in SQL Server 2025 (That aren't AI 😂) #sqlbits

Statue of the Welsh dragon

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 07/03/2026

Still adding to the stickers

Picture of laptop covered in conference stickers

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 27/02/2026

Woooooooooooo!

Picture of an Irish passport

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 13/01/2026

What theme is everyone using for SSMS 22? I like mystical forest :-)

Screenshot of SQL Server Management Studio with the green "Mystical Forest" theme

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/01/2026

I'm getting on a plane

McDonalds sign post advertising a limited time offer of $79.95 for 200 chicken mcnuggets

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/10/2025

Not a bad evening here

Photo of Croagh Patrick with a sunset behind it

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 18/09/2025

Oh this is gonna be good

The finish line of the track at the world 2025 athletics championships in Tokyo National Stadium

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 18/09/2025

Took me a while here in Japan but... what must be done shall be done

Photo of a burrito on a plate in a Mexican restaurant in Tokyo

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 13/09/2025

Ah yeah, found my way back

Front of an Irish pub in Kyoto

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 13/09/2025

Think we took a wrong turn somewhere, this doesnt look like County Mayo

Bamboo forest in Kyoto

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 04/09/2025

Cool shot of me speaking @shipitcon.bsky.social last week on Chaos Engineering. Massive thank you to the organisers and volunteers....was a great conference and I hope to be back!

Andrew Pruski speaking on stage at ShipItCon 2025 on Chaos Engineering

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 04/09/2025

Yeeeeeaaaaahhh!

Hollow Knight: Silksong art work

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/08/2025

Burrito Bot update! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Screenshot of the new Burrito Bot UI

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 09/05/2025

Hmmm

Honestly, I dont know. Statue of a weird yellow guy?

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 08/05/2025

Ahhhh

Irish pub in New York

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 24/04/2025

Hey we're seeing some IO warnings on this server

Farside comic of a man looking at a crashed stool on the ground with a piano about to fall on him

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 20/04/2025

This should be good

The snooker tables being setup for the evening Sunday session at the world championship

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 18/04/2025

Say what you want about me but leave Tina out of it! 😀

Calico cat sitting on a table on a balcony

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 04/04/2025

Don't do it Andrew...

Image of a box containing cargo socks (pockets on the side)

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/03/2025

100% recommend

Photo of Mexican food restaurant's sign

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 25/03/2025

I have a feeling that this isn't quite right

Screen shot of kubernetes cluster status in Docker Desktop showing age of 55 years

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 14/02/2025

Double sigh

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 25/01/2025

Me working from home

Hyacinth from Keeping Up Appearances saying, "Now, what shall I wear to answer the telephone?"

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 24/01/2025

Holy crap

Map of Ireland showing all the power outages, there's a lot!

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 19/01/2025

Name's Bond. James Bond. And you are?

Sign in Asda showing biscuits, cheese biscuits

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 15/01/2025

HAHAHAHAHAHA...no

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/01/2025

Sitting here on the sofa ignoring all the work I should be doing

Sarah's scribbles comic showing a train marked as "deadline" hurtling towards the character who is ignoring it

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 11/01/2025

Should probably go right...ahhh, how bad could left be?

Sign pointing left to labyrinth

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 08/01/2025

Really pleased to be in the top 3% of speakers on Sessionize for 2024! sessionize.com/andrew-pruski/

Sessionize badge showing Andrew Pruski is in the top 3% of speakers for 2024

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/12/2024

🤣🤣🤣

4 panel comic showing two cats saying they love each other but in the last panel one of the cats decides to hit the other one

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/12/2024

OK, what the hell?

Image of SQL Server Management Studio showing connections to localhost and 127.0.0.1 with different databases

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/12/2024

Cool new feature in Kubernetes v1.32 kubernetes.io/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot of the volume group snapshot feature in Kubernetes v1.32

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 11/12/2024

I aspire to this level of comfort

Tortie cat curled up on blanket

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 10/12/2024

Everyone, I present the Burrito Bot...a chatbot for providing burrito recommendations in Dublin 🤣

Screenshot of a really badly built ChatBot that returns information about burrito restaurants in Dublin

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 21/11/2024

And we're off with the final VMUG Ireland event of the year!

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 20/11/2024

This game is driving me nuts!

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 19/11/2024

Yep

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 17/11/2024

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 17/11/2024

Don't judge me

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 16/11/2024

Hi new followers! Just want to mention that half my tweets, err, posts, are going to be about tech I find interesting and the other half are going to be nonsense like this...

Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 14/11/2024

Alright, let's see what this is like!