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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: Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Data, Design, Developer, Documentation, Installation and Upgrade, Latest Version, Service Packs, Storage, Testing, Upgrades, Windows Azure

• Plan for Diagnostics in Cloud Computing From the Git-Go

  “Git-Go” is something we say in the South that means “right at the start”. I’ve seen several applications for on-premise systems that don’t have much in the way of diagnostics - the developers rely on a debugger, the event logs on the server and client Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2011 7:11 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Best Practices, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Design, Developer, Development, Error Codes, Link Lists, Monitoring, Testing, Troubleshooting, Windows Azure

• Database Testing Links

  Yesterday at the SQL PASS 2010 Summit I did a presentation on database testing - I have two sets of links I mentioned there, one for the information I presented and the other for various tools I've tried. Enjoy: More information on Database Testing and Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:38 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Conferences, Link Lists, Testing

• Attaching a Database

  I had someone ask me yesterday how they could get to a database used by a product that they owned, but that was installed using SQL Server Express. They didn’t have access to the database, and they didn’t know the password for the service that started Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:03 AM by BuckWoody | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Testing, Tips

• Spit it out already!

  You’ve probably seen that commercial where the chewing-gum company van stalks the guy who has been chewing the same piece of gum too long, and they attack him and make him chew another piece. I feel like that with SQL Server 2000. Almost every shop I Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 06, 2010 7:11 AM by BuckWoody | 14 Comments Filed under: Administration, DBA, Rant, SQL Server, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2008, Support, Testing, Upgrades

• 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 | 6 Comments Filed under: DBA, Developer, Development, Documentation, Latest Version, Performance Tuning, SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, Testing