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• Continuous deployment of SSDT database projects to Windows Azure using Team Foundation Service

  Continuous deployment is described by Wikipedia as: Most CI systems allow the running of scripts after a build finishes. In most situations, it is possible to write a script to deploy the application to a live test server that everyone can look at. A Read More... Posted Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:07 PM by jamiet | 11 Comments Filed under: SQL Azure, Continuous Integration, TFS, SQL Server Data Tools, SSDT, Windows Azure, Windows Azure SQL Database

• Northwind now available on SQL Azure

  Two weeks ago I made available a copy of [AdventureWorks2012] on SQL Azure and published credentials so that anyone from the SQL community could connect up and experience SQL Azure, probably for the first time. One of the (somewhat) popular requests thereafter Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:08 PM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: sql server, SQL Azure, SSDT, AdventureWorks on Azure

• Move a SQL Azure server between subscriptions

  In September 2011 I published a blog post SSIS Reporting Pack v0.2 now available in which I made available the credentials of a sample database that one could use to test SSIS Reporting Pack . That database was sitting on a paid-for Azure subscription Read More... Posted Monday, March 26, 2012 11:43 AM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Azure

• Reading the SQL Azure tea leaves

  Social media! Its like garlic bread....its the future. I've tasted it!!! Ahem...ok...perhaps not. Still, I do get a lot of useful information from various social media outlets that I inhabit and just this morning I spotted something on LinkedIn that really Read More... Posted Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:10 AM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: sql server, SQL Azure, Semantic Engine

• Project Houston CTP released - try it out with brentotweets

  The SQL Azure team have just announced in their blog post CTP1 of Microsoft® Project Code-Named “Houston” now available that their web based admin tool for SQL Azure (codenamed Houston) has just hit CTP release - you can hit it up on SLQ Azure Labs at Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4:19 PM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: sql server, SQL Azure, Project Houston, brentotweets

• Is SQL Azure a newbies springboard?

  Earlier today I was considering the various SQL Server platforms that are available today and I wondered aloud, wonder how long until the majority of #sqlserver newcomers use @ sqlazure instead of installing locally Let me explain. My first experience Read More... Posted Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:20 PM by jamiet | 6 Comments Filed under: sql server, SQL Azure, Project Houston

• OData.org updated, gives clues about future SQL Azure enhancements

  The OData website at http://www.odata.org/home has been updated today to provide a much more engaging page than the previous sterile attempt. Moreover its now chockful of information about the progress of OData including a blog , a list of products that Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:00 PM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: SQL Azure, OData

• Tweetpoll and RESTful Northwind go bye-bye

  On 31st January 2010 Windows Azure and SQL Azure will transition to becoming services that you have to pay for which means that my three small demos that are hosted up there are going to disappear hence I thought now would be a good time to review before Read More... Posted Saturday, January 23, 2010 11:25 AM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Azure, Azure, twitter, twittercache, Northwind, tweetpoll, codeplex

• Project Houston

  Of late I’ve started to wonder about the direction that Microsoft may take their various development tools in the future. There has been an obvious move toward embracing the open source development community, witness the presence of open source advocate Read More... Posted Sunday, December 06, 2009 8:53 PM by jamiet | 6 Comments Filed under: sql server, SQL Azure, Project Houston, Silverlight

• TwitterCache now hosted on SQL Azure

  2012-06-07 Update: All good things must come to an end - I have now shutdown this server. I hope it was useful to some of you in the two and a half years that it has been available. Earlier today Brent Ozar blogged about how he had been archiving tweets Read More... Posted Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:41 PM by jamiet | 7 Comments Filed under: sql server, SQL Azure, twittercache

• FYI: A new barrier to SQL Azure adoption

  On their recent blog post Updated CTP for SQL Azure Database includes complete feature set for PDC 2009! the SQL Azure team outlined a new feature: Firewall Support – The new firewall features allows a customer to specify an allow list of IP address that Read More... Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 4:37 PM by jamiet | 14 Comments Filed under: sql server, SQL Azure

• RESTful Northwind on SQL Azure

  Introduction I recently gained access to SQL Azure, the hosted database part of Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering. I don’t currently have a reason to use SQL Azure in my day-to-day work so I set myself a small project that would enable me to prod and poke Read More... Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:13 AM by jamiet | 6 Comments Filed under: SQL Azure, Datadude

• SQL Azure Script Verifier

  I just stumbled across a site that I think is worth drawing attention to. http://www.sqlazureverifier.com/ is a site that enables you to paste in your existing T-SQL scripts and it will tell you whether they run against SQL Azure or not. Its still very Read More... Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 11:36 PM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: t-sql, SQL Azure