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My article on “Tuning SQL Azure database – part 1” got published in SolidQ journal July 2011 Issue. The editorial of the Journal written by Fernando G. Guerrero [Global CEO, SolidQ] summed up the article by following words: "Even if cloud computing hides some back-end complexity fr......
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From July 2011, you could assign SQL Azure co-administrator's that can manage SQL Azure databases and servers through Azure Management Portal. It’s an awesome update! Earlier, though you could add co-administrator’s through Azure management portal, But they were not able to manage SQL Azure you; Wit......
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Go to http://beyondrelational.com/whatisnew/sqlserver/azure/default.aspx to explore the features being added with each release of SQL Azure. You will be interested to know that unlike other products, the release cycles of SQL Azure is rapid and in a year you can expect 4-6 service updates (releases)......
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In this blog post, I present a step by step guide to install an Adventure Works LT database (AWLT DB) on SQL Azure. I assume you have already provisioned a SQL Azure server. If not, you can go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/free-trial/ or http://windowsazurepass.com/ to sign up for free tr......
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My guest post on “Extending SQL Azure with Azure worker role” got published on Pinal sir’s blog. In the article, I discuss three lightweight solutions that augment the contemporary capability of SQL Azure. They are:
1. Automating SQL Azure database backup process
2. Lightweight ......
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Did you knew that SQL Azure keeps three replicas (in total) of our Database? Apparantely, this is to tackle failover's and provide the guaranteed High Availability (99.9% availability) with SQL Azure.
With SQL Azure we have one replica called a primary and the remaining two are called secondary re......
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SQL Azure introduces two Database views database_usage and bandwidth_usage which lets you view the billing information. you can run the TSQL code in the SQL server management studio or in the web based SQL Azure DB manager. These views are only available to the server level principal login and on......
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Have you heard of ‘As copy of’ TSQL command that let’s to copy the SQL Azure databases. If not, read this blog post to know more about it.
Before I begin discussing about ‘as copy of’ just an FYI: ‘As copy of’ does not work with SQL server.
Now, What does......
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