Tag: Azure
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Whitepaper on NoSQL and the Windows Azure Platform
Good 28 page whitepaper on NoSQL for SQL Server developers, first familiarizing the reader with NoSQL, then showing what NoSQL options there are in the Microsoft and Azure stack. Also a fair bit of positioning and what are appropriate use cases for NoSQL.
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Sharding With SQL Azure
Microsoft’s announcement of a new whitepaper about Sharding With SQL Azure reminded me that MS is very good about documenting everything around SQL Azure, and there are a lot of excellent whitepapers for all aspects of SQL Azure. Go read them if you’re interested!
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Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Cassandra’s Jonathan Ellis
The Windows Azure blog has a long and good interview with Jonathan Ellis about Cassandra and a lot of other relevant topics. Take a break to read Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Jonathan Ellis, Co-Founder of Riptano. When asked about Cassandra vs. RDBMS, this following is interesting: I think relational databases are going to…
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Loading data to SQL Azure the fast way
Here’s how to Load data to SQL Azure the fast way: use BCP or SSIS, and parallelize the loads. With some parallel optimization you’re able to achieve almost similar loading rates from outside Azure, i.e. over the Internet, as from Windows Azure, i.e. through the internal Azure network. Enough said!
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Small Data SQL Cloud
The recent releases of SQL Anywhere 12 and SQL Server Compact 4.0 got me thinking about a pet project of mine, basically providing a very cheap SQL persistence layer to fill the gap between Excel / MS Access and the multi-gigabytes typically stored in ‘real’ RDBMS. I’ve been thinking in terms of SQL Clouds such…
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Windows Azure Platform Appliance
Microsoft formally announced its Windows Azure Platform Appliance today, as TechCrunchIT reports. Dell, eBay, Fujitsu, and HP intend to deploy the appliance in their datacenters to offer new cloud services. While that’s nice to know, I’m much more interested to hear by when we can get our own appliance, and what the configuration sizes and…
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