Scheduling Jobs in Azure Are you thinking about moving your applications into the Azure Cloud? Guess what is no longer there? Azure, at this time, doesn’t have any job scheduling technologies. Windows Scheduler and SQL Server Agent do not exist in Azure. Why? Because when you publish your applications in Azure you have no idea where it will be hosted. […]

Featured Article(s) Troubleshooting problems with SQL Server 2008 R2 Merge Replication In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have when you work with SQL Server 2008 R2 merge replication. Featured White Paper(s) All-At-Once Operations Written by Itzik Ben-Gan with SolidQ SQL supports a concept called all-at-onc… (read more) Tuples – Dot Net 4 Generic Classes I […]

SSWUGtv With Stephen Wynkoop What’s new in SQL Server 2012? On the show today, Michael Crump talks about developing with #sql2012. As always there will be some great tips and much more. Watch the Show Key Performance Indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have been used broadly to track the health of a business and the activities that contribute to that […]

What Skills Will Developers Need? If I could answer that question with utmost confidence I could be rich. There are a lot of different platforms working hard to become the industry standard. There are those who like to build systems around big hardware that can scale up easily. Systems based on platforms like the AS400 or Unix allow a great […]

$$SWYNK$$ Featured Article(s) How to Backup (Part 1) Since data is the lifeline of your company, you, as a Data Professional, need to ensure that your data is protected, recoverable, usable, secure, and so on. One of the first tasks that you should perform as a Data Professional is to ensure that the data is properly backed up. This seems […]

Centralized Authentication Services In response to my editorial from yesterday regarding a centralized authentication framework, David Ellis, a regular contributor to our newsletter provides three authentication frameworks providing standardized trust capabilities. David writes: I’m aware of three major authentication frameworks that are trying to standardize exactly the problem you’re describing (allow trusted sources to provide for authentication). OpenID http://openid.net/ – […]

Authentication I was recently talking with a colleague about Application Authentication. We were both in agreement that there is a logical separation between Authentication (Am I who I Say I am?) and Authorization (What rights and privileges do I have in your application). One of the key things about our conversation was the ever changing world of Authenticating. In the […]

$$SWYNK$$ Featured Article(s) How Do You Transition from a Consulting Job Back to Management? I recently received a question regarding “How do you transition from a consulting job back into management?” This is a great topic, because the answer is useful whether you are moving from a consulting job back into IT, or management; OR moving from any field to […]

Azure Table Storage For those of you looking into NoSQL engines, Windows Azure Table Storage is another player in the mix. The main difference between Windows Azure Table Storage and other engines is that it is only supported inside the Windows Azure platform. If you wish to use it outside of Windows Azure, it is not available. How does it […]