Articles in the Azure Category
This video provides an overview of Microsoft SQL Azure, a part of the Windows Azure Platform, Microsoft’s cloud computing offering. It explains why you should care about SQL Azure and what benefits can you derive …
SQL Azure Performance Tuning is a much tougher task than SQL Server, – SQL Azure lacks some of the basic tools available to SQL Server DBA’s. There really isn’t too much to do tuning your …
Windows Azure now includes a Virtual Machine role that allows organizations to host their own virtual machines in the cloud.
Microsoft introduced this role as a way to ease the migration of applications to cloud computing. …
Microsoft is famous for saying it’s "all in" with cloud computing, and for developers, there’s been a lot of information, code and features to sink their teeth into. But as an IT administrator, the cloud …
In my previous article, “SQL Azure migration: To the cloud and back again,” I discussed the options for moving data between local SQL Server instances and SQL Azure. In this article, we will look at more …
As SQL Azure gets more popular and widely used, users will have to develop reliable processes for migrating data to the cloud or bringing it back, either to local servers or a data warehouse on-premises. In more …
In addition to SQL Azure, Windows Azure features four persistent storage forms Tables, Queues , Blobs and Drives. In this article we will focus on Tables.
Table Storage
Tables are a very interesting new storage method offered …
Even though SQL Azure is based on SQL Server, it includes some limitations because of its Internetavailability and cloud deployment. When you use SQL Server on-premises, the tools and client APIs havefull access to the …
An Azure Web Role is very similar to the traditional ASP.NET project. However there are three differences in the default setup:
In an Azure Web Role, references are added to 3 assemblies. Diagnostics which contains all …
The Windows Azure CDN is a convenient way for application developers to minimize latency that geographically dispersed application users will experience. As of as of February 2010, the Azure CDN is currently in CTP and …
