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SQL Azure
If you’ve talked to anyone from Microsoft recently you had to have heard the phrase “all in.” It’s been made very clear. Microsoft is all in on the cloud. What’s that mean? My understanding of it means...
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SQL Azure Cost
We’ve all heard the scary stories. A developer starts testing Azure and then suddenly gets a thousand dollar bill on their credit card. The whole idea behind Azure works of the premise that you are not...
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SQL Azure Deployments
You’ve set up your access to a SQL Azure site so you’re ready to go. Now how do you get your database up there? Well, TSQL works just fine, so you can script it all out to a file or set of files and...
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Execution Plans on Azure SQL Database Portal
If you’ve been working with the Azure SQL Database portal, you know that you have a query window. Within the query window you can run queries against your server. You’ll get back results, timing,...
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Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices: Chapter 12
I was very privileged to get the opportunity to write a chapter in a book with some of my friends and SQL Family, Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices . Just as each of us took a chapter to write, each of us...
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Execution Plans in Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has stated pretty clearly that they’re putting code on Azure first, ahead of the desktop. Which makes one wonder when we’re going to start to see some of this cool stuff within SSMS. What...
View ArticlePASS Summit 2013 is Looking Cloudy
No, this isn’t some complaint about PASS or the Summit. This is an announcement that not only will I be speaking at the PASS Summit, but I’m speaking about Azure… a lot. First up, I’m going to be doing...
View ArticleA Little Azure Fun on Friday
You know how we’ve always heard that sp_msforeachtable and other similar undocumented functions may not be supported in future versions of SQL Server? Have you tried running something like this on any...
View ArticleI Don’t Care
It’s funny how certain sentences can both accurately reflect a situation and communicate entirely the wrong message. When thinking about cloud-based data management, things come down to a simple, if...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Commitment to Azure
For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that Microsoft had bet the farm and could possibly lose it all. They may well have bet the...
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