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In this article, we will discuss fundamentals of SQL Azure reporting, which as of now is in community technology preview (CTP) and there has been a tremendous interest in this marvelous feature or call it a service, if you will. The response was so great that the CTP invite request was closed! yeah ......
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My guest post on “SQL Azure interview questions and answers” got published on Pinal Sir’s blog. URL: http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/25/sql-server-azure-interview-questions-and-answers-guest-post-by-paras-doshi-day-25-of-31/ List of Interview questions: 1. What is SQL Azure? 2.......
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One of the excellent option to perform data migration from SQL server to SQL Azure is to use SQL server Integration services. And guess what, SSIS can do lot more than the just BCPing data from SQL server to SQL Azure. But SQL Azure does not provide SSIS out of the box – so we have to run SSIS......
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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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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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Once you have provisioned a SQL Azure server, created a SQL Azure database and ready to migrate the SQL server database schema (or probably a small chunk of data) to SQL Azure, you will find Generate script wizard which is a feature available in SQL server Management studio 2008 R2 to be very handy......
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Would you like to try Windows azure for free? and you do not wish to enter credit card details either. Well, you may say – “you’re kidding, aren’t you?”. But it turns out I am not kidding. There exists a promotional offer called “Windows Azure pass” which le......
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The article titled “Migrating Data into Microsoft’s Data platform – SQL Azure” discusses contemporary tools that are available to migrate SQL server data into Microsoft’s cloud based database i.e SQL Azure. The article is then broadly classified into 1. Schema Migration......
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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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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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