March 2013 - Posts

• Using Existing Windows Azure SQL Databases with Azure Mobile Services

  I was one of the speakers today at the 6 Weeks of Azure bootcamp event in Sydney today. During the day, as well as speaking, we have an "unconference". There's a lot of discussion on whatever the attendees want to discuss. One of the offline questions Read More... Posted Saturday, March 23, 2013 4:21 PM by Greg Low | 2 Comments

• Whitepaper editing <sigh>

  Hi Folks, I posted a day or so back about the whitepaper on plan caching and recompilation being published. Today I had a query from a reader and found that the editor has messed up an example. For example, I had this example of a query that's almost Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:10 PM by Greg Low | 3 Comments

• Whitepaper: Plan Caching and Recompilations in SQL Server 2012

  Hi Folks, Over the last year, I've been working on an update to the whitepaper Plan Caching in SQL Server 2008 as a background task. A great group of reviewers have been involved at various stages during the process. Thank you to Paul White , Andrew Kelly Read More... Posted Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:39 PM by Greg Low | 4 Comments

• SQL Down Under - Show 57 - Karen López - Data Modelling, Database Refactoring, Space Data, and Open Data

  Hi Folks, I got to record another podcast today. Show 57 features guest SQL Server MVP Karen López. Karen is well-known in the SQL Community, on her blog and is prolific on Twitter. In the show, Karen discusses her experiences related to data modelling, Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 12, 2013 12:49 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• SQL Server BI Tooling now in Visual Studio 2012 Shell

  This is really exciting. One of the complaints from those using the BI tools (SQL Server Data Tools) has been that they were tied to the Visual Studio 2010 shell, when the rest of their development work had moved to Visual Studio 2012. The SQL Server Read More... Posted Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:33 PM by Greg Low | 2 Comments

• Windows Azure SQL Reporting - now configurable in the new portal

  Scott Guthrie blogged yesterday about a raft of new changes to the Azure platform. Of interest to SQL folk are really three main changes: * SQL Reporting has made its way into the new portal (ie: you no longer have to flip back to the old portal to work Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 06, 2013 12:37 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• SQL Down Under Show 56 - Thomas LaRock - DBAs moving to architect, constant learning, Azure, big data

  I recorded another podcast today with Thomas LaRock, aka SQL Rock Star . In this show, Tom and I discussed the migration of many DBAs into architect roles, the challenges in constant learning (and useful resources for doing so), the hype around big data, Read More... Posted Saturday, March 02, 2013 11:15 AM by Greg Low | 0 Comments