The security announcements around Azure SQL Database keep coming. Auditing was implemented a few months ago, and today it was followed by a preview of
Yesterday’s blog post about Azure SQL Database V12 mentioned that one of the features I was particularly interested in seeing/testing were the spatial features. Interestingly,
In general, I usually hate “me too” announcement blog posts. Over the years, I’ve considered it less than useful to simply repeat “Product XXX released
Today, two new service offerings for the Azure platform were introduced, DocumentDB and Azure Search. These are exciting in themselves and worth a look-see but,
In a previous blog entry, I mentioned changes in SQL Azure Database’s new tiers. Another one, that I think is indirectly related to the new
One of the things that make Azure SQL Database difficult to keep track of is that details of some database behaviors can change, usually without
UPDATE: Last month (Sept 2015), Extended Events (not just the metadata that I wrote about) are officially available in Azure SQL Database!! For more information,
This post contains miscellaneous information about the current/future state of Azure SQL Database (AST). You know I couldn’t write just one more blog post when
In this post I’ll address perhaps the most important of all the announcements, performance levels. The 6 new ASD tiers provide different levels of performance
This post is about a new SQL Azure Database feature called a “Business Continuity Feature”, called “Disaster recovery/geo-replication”. This feature was announced last week as
Note: Well that was quick. I’ve updated this blog entry (same day) to reflect clarifications provided by a member of the Azure SQL Database team.
This blog post is especially dedicated to those who attended my SQLIntersection post-conference talk on WASD just over one week ago. The announcements were made
The latest feature to make an appearance in Windows Azure SQL Database (actually it’s still a preview program) is the Premium Database. Physically, when you
In mid-April, April 13-16 to be exact, the spring installment of SQL Intersection comes to Orlando. I’ll actually be there a little earlier and leave
The last time I spoke at the Portland SQL Server User Group was the first time I’d ever seen taken any questions on Windows Azure
I’ve been trying out the new supported Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets this week and I’d have to say I’m impressed. I’ve only used the ones
Continued from the previous post, "Some new/upcoming Windows Azure SQL Database DMVs and diagnostics"… Read that one to find out who Vinod and Michal are.
I didn't get to a whole lot of others' sessions at TechEd this year, but was pleasantly surprised by Vinod and Michal's session on "SQL
The last piece of the DAC puzzle (at least for now) is import and export. Export makes a non-transactionally consistant copy of database content that
I can script out a database schema (and optionally data) from SQL Server databases. Any version from 2005 and beyond, as well as SQL Azure
Back when I was saw SQL Azure was producing an @@version string that mentioned version 11 (that's SQL Server 2012's major version number), I'd started
Late tonight I tried something that I didn't think would work because @@version on SQL Azure didn't report anything different from last week. (Microsoft SQL
A short while ago, I wrote a blog entry about SQL Server 2012 features that are currently available in SQL Azure. In that post, I
Earlier this month I noticed that SQL Azure, with the latest upgrade has a version of 11…something (actually 11.0.1467.26, to be exact). And I wondered,
I've been trying this out every day or so since I'd heard about the update (originally named the July 2011 Service Release), but I'd forgotten
The next version of Data-Tier Applications is version 2.0. You can get a CTP of it today; where the CTP is located really gives away
In looking at the what's new for SQL Azure (May 2011) page, I came across the following: "Upcoming Increased Precision of Spatial Types: For the
Last week I did a talk at SQLConnections on SQL Azure Database and Data-Tier Applications (DAC). At the time (it was the day of Visual Studio
I was trundling through my SQL Azure database today, looking for interesting behaviors. Found one. A "select * from sys.databases" reveals that both "snapshot_isolation_state" and
SQL Server Management Studio in 2008 R2 (and there's a standalone upgrade for SSMS) supports connecting to SQL Azure. And there were some tools on
Yesterday I signed up for my account to the official, live, RTM cloud. Of course it was all for the SQL Server, that is, SQL
With training and consulting from SQLskills, you’ll be able to solve big problems, elevate your team’s capacity, and take control of your data career.