Tag Archives: SQL
SQL Server Developments from the 2011 PASS Summit
During the week of October 10th-14th the 2011 PASS Summit took place in Seattle, Washington at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. PASS stands for the Professional Association for SQL Server, which is an independent, not-for-profit association whose purpose is to support, educate, and promote the Microsoft SQL Server community. It provides an opportunity [...]
SQL Azure
In our previous post we looked at the different options in Windows Azure storage. Now we turn our attention to SQL Azure, a relational database management system for the cloud which offers: Features needed to perform transactions. Indexes, views, triggers, and stored procedures. Easy migration for applications that use SQL Server locally to the cloud [...]
Federations are coming to Windows Azure in 2011
Recently I wrote about how scalability and elasticity are achieved in the Windows Azure Platform. Today I want to discuss another issue concerning operating in the Cloud with large databases. Having a single large database running in a cloud environment (known as scaling-up) has some drawbacks. It may not be able to handle the load [...]
SQL Server ‘Denali’ CTP3 Released
This week Microsoft released its next-generation SQL Server database management system, code-named “Denali”, as a community technology preview (CTP3) release. The release comes with numerous enhancements in availability, manageability, programmability, scalability, performance and security to increase the server’s accessibility, scalability, ease of use and to lower operating costs. The most important features include: A new [...]
Windows Azure Components
As we said in our previous post in this series, in the Windows Azure platform there are three main components, Windows Azure, Windows Azure platform AppFabric and SQL Azure. Additionally within Windows Azure server are two environments: The compute environment which processes request and The storage environment that holds data reliably Also in Windows Azure [...]
Understanding Windows Azure
The power, popularity and cost effectiveness of cloud-based computing continues to grow. That is why you should consider running your internet based or on-premises applications on Microsoft’s Windows Azure technology platform. In a previous post we introduced the Windows Azure cloud services platform. Now, in this series of posts we want explore in-depth the features [...]
