From the MSDN Windows Azure blog - We recently introduced Azure CAT team series of blog posts and tech articles describing the Cloud Service Fundamentals in Windows Azure code project posted on MSDN Code Gallery. The first component we are addressing in this series is Telemetry. This has been one of the first reusable components we have built working on Windows Azure customer projects of all sizes.
How do you keep track of passwords? A few experts out there share some of their techniques and Steve Jones adds his thoughts.
This article will help you solve connection errors with SSIS due to permission issues.
PowerShell provides comment-based help for functions and scripts with Get-Help, but when you want to document modues or generate a complete indexed API in HTML format, just as you can with Sandcastle for .NET or javadoc for Java, then stronger magic is required. Michael Sorens shows you how it is done, with source code.
Join Red Gate for a free a seminar on July 26 (the day before SQL Saturday Sacramento). SQL Server MVP experts, Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey will present sessions featuring best practices for SQL Server database development and deployment, in addition to showing Red Gate tools in action.
SQL Saturday will be in Iowa City on July 27, 2013. This free day of SQL Server Training and Networking will also have pay-for pre-conference sessions presented by Bill Pearson, Louis Davidson and Tim Mitchell.
The idea of giving back to the world some of your success has been something many successful businesses have done forever. Steve Jones thinks they should consider giving more than physical resources, but also give data.
SQL Saturday is coming to Sacramento on July 27, 2013. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. This SQL Saturday also features a paid-for full day pre-con session with Kalen Delaney
This article looks at SQL Server locking and transaction isolation levels, how to set the transaction isolation level, and how some isolation levels use locking, while others use row versioning. It also explains what type of locks data update requires.
Can we make a hack resistant database? A vendor claims this, but Steve Jones thinks it's not really a good claim to make and that we ought to make it our job to secure databases.
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