Category Archives: SQL Azure

SQL Azure and Query plans / Performance

I showed you a while ago the improved SQL Azure management portal. After having nothing in 2008, Project Houston was a great step towards a Cloud only management portal. But December 2011 they renewed the complete SQL Azure management portal. … Continue reading

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SQL Azure Reporting Preview

What the Windows Azure platform missed, was an implementation of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). That doesn’t mean reports are not able, there is no service for storing those reports. With Visual Studio 2010 are you able to create a … Continue reading

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SQL Azure enhancements (December 2011)

There are a few enhancements made to the Windows Azure Management portal as I told you in my previous blogpost Billing is one of them. But there are also enhancements made to SQL Azure. Now you can choose for 100 … Continue reading

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SQL Azure Databases

When I do sessions on Windows Azure, then SQL Azure is always part of that. Most of the time remarks about the maximum sizes of SQL Azure database come from the audience. Quick summary. There are 2 SQL Azure editions … Continue reading

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SQL Azure – manage options

In my previous post I told about Project Houston and how the current version is much cleaner. Well look at the picture and decide by yourself. Project Houston:   The 2011 version: I love the new one for sure! Post … Continue reading

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SQL Azure DACPAC – import and export data

If you keep an eye on the Windows Azure blog then you saw the  announcement of service release of SQL Azure. With this update there are also changes made to the SQL Azure part on the Windows Azure portal. Before … Continue reading

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SQL Azure development with tooling ‘Juneau’

At this moment when you develop for SQL Azure you miss some of the cool tools. The tools you are familiar with while developing for SQL Server 2008 R2. In the SQL Server Management Studio when connected to SQL Server … Continue reading

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SQL Azure versions

Few months ago on the Windows Azure blog there was the announcement about the SQL Azure July service release. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/07/13/announcing-sql-azure-july-2011-service-release.aspx In this blog post they warned, the live version van SQL Azure would be update in de coming weeks. In … Continue reading

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SQL Azure Custom Logging to Windows Azure Table storage

At a Windows Azure customer of ours they keep track of changes on the tables in the SQL Azure database. This is done by a trigger, the trigger inserts the change in a table. I can not think of another … Continue reading

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Window Azure Co-admin and SQL Azure

At different customer sites I am not the administrator of the Windows Azure subscription. But I am one of the co-admin(‘s). My strategy is to make a live id on the e-mail address I have with that customer. So when … Continue reading

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