I have been using VMware vSphere client for a while now and the person who inspired me to use this wonderful tool is none other than Brent Ozar(B/T).I’m a great fan of his webcasts.

In this blog post we will discuss some crucial information related to… Read more

A blog post about Microsoft Assessment Planning Toolkit was in my list for quite a while and today I decided to write about it.

Let’s assume that you are working for a pretty large organization and there are a lot of database servers running within the environment.

One fine day… Read more

Many times I have seen this question coming from users - Can I still buy per socket licenses for installing SQL2008 R2 ? 

This question comes into the mind as SQL 2012 is already out and there is no more per socket based licensing model for the same.SQL2012 licensing is… Read more

Security is one of the most discussed topics for any cloud deployment plans and no organisation would like to compromise on security when they make that ‘final’ decision to move their database to the cloud.

In this blog post we will review how protected are our SQLDatabases within Windows Azure… Read more

Well, that is one impressive dashboard of Audi RS4! It gives huge amount of flexibility for the driver to control the transmission with lot of ease, and get quick view of crucial information.

Windows Azure portal does provide a dashboard for SQLDatabase too!

It will give information regarding space usage,… Read more

In this post we will review some basic DML,DDL capabilities of SQL Database on windows Azure.

This post is in continuation with my earlier 3 posts

SQLSailor is exploring(Part1) – Creating my first SQL Database on Windows Azure

SQLSailor is exploring(Part 2) – Managing SQL Databases on Windows Azure

SQLSailor… Read more