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What I'm Reading, July 22 2011

KKline — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:43:00 GMT

I read too much, and that, my friends, is an entirely separate topic for a blog post. But I thought I'd share with you a little more about what I'm reading because sometimes, if I'm lucky, it might be something you'd enjoy too. So I'm going to start sharing what I'm reading at least once per week, partly so that I don't firehose too many reading links directly into your brain (where I to do it say once per month) and partly to solidify in my own mind the information that I'm reviewing. So here are a few good links for the seven days leading up to July 22, 2001:

Microsoft and Whitehouse partnership on BigData: BigData isn't a particularly new concept. But I was intrigued to learn that the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, and 13 other teams were partnering on developing better BigData analytics for lots of government data from activities such as healthcare, economic development, education, transportation, and the power grid. Cools stuff! Plus, Microsoft has developed a new tool called Project Daytona to better harness the power of the cloud, in general, and Windows Azure, specifically.
While we're on the topic of Federal IT in the Cloud be sure to read this linked article from ComputerWorld. Say what you will about our government, but putting government IT in the cloud and increasing both its transparency and availability will make a huge difference in how the Federal government will be able to service the public. We're talking as big a difference as corporations experienced between the "catalog on the web" experience of the 1990's to the Web2.0 experience of today.
If you're the social media type, give this article a read discussing the Power of Hashtags in Social Media.
The Register, of the UK, whose tagline is "Biting the hand that feeds IT" has a great article on a spat over database technologies between the IT sage Michael Stonebreaker and Google. It's a great read if for no other reason than to prove that databases are worth fighting over.
And if you think Microsoft is still towing the relational database barge without thinking about other technologies, you need to read up on Projects Dryad and Daytona.
Finally, I'm still getting lots of questions about when and where to limit SQL Server's Max Degrees of Parallelism. Be sure to read Microsoft's Recommendations and Guidelines for 'max degree of parallelism' configuration option here.

And just because so many of us in IT are closet or former musicians, there's Live Guitar Lessons with Steven Krenz, sponsored by my hometown boyz at Gibson Guitar. Got a favorite article or tool tip? Let me know! Enjoy,

-Kev

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SQL Server Migration Roll-Up

KKline — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:42:00 GMT

There are so many great tools out there for data professionals using Microsoft SQL Server. I really like to see all of these great tools made free to the public. On the other hand, I'm bummed that the tools are cast about in a very decentralized fashion. If you haven't done migrations before, you might want to start with these good white papers first.

Here are a hand full of cool migration tools worth mentioning:

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL: Migrate from MySQL to SQL Azure or SQL Server with ease. Plus, here are a few related Knowledge Base (KB) articles:

Azure SQL Service: Database Migration To Sql Azure
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2212855/en-US

Azure SQL Service: Database Migration To Sql Azure
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2212990/en-US

Azure SQL Service: Developing Applications For Sql Azure
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2213496/en-US

SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Sybase: Migrate from Sybase ASE to SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.

SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Microsoft Access: Migrate from Access to SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Azure.

SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Oracle: Migrate from Oracle to SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2. I'm thinking about installing it on my SQL Servers even without even needing to migrate existing Oracle databases to SQL Server. Why? Well as an old Oracle hand, I came to really enjoy quite a few Oracle PL/SQL system packages (kind'a like a SQL Server system stored procedure, but often more powerful). As it turns out SSMA-Oracle includes stored procedures, extended stored procedures, and CLR routines that reproduce the functionality in most all of the cool and powerful Oracle packages like DBMS_PIPES. It'd be nice to have those on my SQL Servers just because I know them and like them.

Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0: Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server - and PHP is good.

Microsoft Services for Mission Critical Customers: Many enterprise customers running mission critical applications on SQL Server have asked for more - more service and support for their environments. This is an add-on that costs extra, but it's worth it for those running the systems that keep the company in business.
If you've tried any of these tools out, I'm keen to hear your experiences. Did they work well for you? Did they work, though poorly? Did they fail utterly? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Enjoy!

-Kev

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