Windows Azure and Azure Storage offers a new scalable and robust architecture that borrows much from the common feel of ASP.NET applications but brings plenty of new features as well. This paradigm shift from what has become traditional client-server architecture will offer new options to developers and headaches alike. While "the cloud" is not intended to be the answer for all applications and situations, it can only be a potential answer (another "tool" in the proverbial "tool belt") if you have at minimum a general understanding.

Communication Issues

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Editorial - iPod

When you have a team of people working together to manage systems, communication becomes important. Steve Jones notes that a lack of working with each other and letting the rest of the team know what you are doing can cause unnecessary work for others.

Communication Issues

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial - MP3

Communication Issues

by Steve Jones

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Editorial - WMV

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Not all DBAs have the opportunity to attend formal classroom training or attend conferences. While there are many SQL Server...

Maintenance Plan clean up task - not working to plan

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Blogs

A colleague of mine who is getting to grips with SQL Server had an issue after creating and implementing a...

Managing Transaction Logs in SQL Server

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Transaction Log

The Transaction Log provides the means by which either the complete set of tasks of a database transaction are performed or none of them are. It ensures that , via rollback, only valid data is written out to the database, and it allows transactions to be played back to recreate the system state right before a failure. Robert Sheldon explains the various basic tasks involved in managing the transaction log.

Just SQL Auth

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Would you like to have only SQL Server Authentication on your instances? That's the subject of this Friday's poll.

Undocumented Extended and Stored Procedures

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Stored Procedures

Some useful undocumented extended and stored procedures in SQL Server 2005

Interview with the Scary DBA - Grant Fritchey

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Interviews

or our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we selected Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been so successful in the past year with his books and presentations. How does he manage to pack so much into his life? We sent Richard Morris to find out.

Building Windows Azure Cloud Service Applications with Azure Storage and the Azure SDK

Communication Issues

Communication Issues

Communication Issues

Get 25% Off SQL Server E-Learning from Microsoft

Maintenance Plan clean up task - not working to plan

Managing Transaction Logs in SQL Server

Just SQL Auth

Undocumented Extended and Stored Procedures

Interview with the Scary DBA - Grant Fritchey

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