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• How Microsoft helps you NOT break your Windows Azure Application: Storage Services Versioning

  One of the advantages of using Windows Azure to run your code is that you don’t have to constantly manage upgrades on your platform. While that’s a big advantage indeed, it immediately brings up the question - how do the upgrades happen? Microsoft upgrades Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2011 7:42 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer, Design, Testing, Latest Version, Documentation, Upgrades, Data, Installation and Upgrade, Cloud, Azure, Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, Storage, Service Packs

• Which Edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 should you use?

  SQL Server 2008 R2 has just released to manufacturing (RTM’d) as I write this. With each new release, we make changes to the “Editions” we offer. A SQL Server “version” deals with the major changes in the product – and “edition” is a set of features and Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:03 AM by BuckWoody | 8 Comments Filed under: Web, SQL Server 2008, Latest Version, SQL Server 2000

• Do you need all that data?

  I read an amazing post over on ars technica (link: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/the-software-brains-behind-the-particle-colliders.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss ) abvout the LHC, or as they are also known, the Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 13, 2010 6:24 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Design, SQL Server, Latest Version, Planning

• After the Upgrade, it runs differently…

  I got a question yesterday in the mail that I thought I would just answer here in a broad context. While I can’t troubleshoot or do performance tuning from a distance, there are some interesting concepts and suggestions this e-mail brings up: “I have Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 01, 2009 9:06 AM by BuckWoody | 7 Comments Filed under: Development, Developer, DBA, SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, Testing, Performance Tuning, Latest Version, Documentation