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Thursday, July 29, 2010

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Windows Azure AppFabric LABS August Release, Breaking Changes Announcement and Scheduled Maintenance

by netsqlservicesteam via Windows Azure platform AppFabric Team Blog on 7/29/2010 11:58:00 PM

The Windows Azure AppFabric LABS August release is expected to be released on August 5, 2010 (Thursday).  Users will have NO access to the AppFabric LABS portal and services during the scheduled maintenance down time.     When:       START: August 5, 2010, 10am PST     END:  August 5, 2010, 6pm PST   Impact Alert:     LABS AppFabric Service Bus, Access Control and portal will be unavailable during this period.   ...

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Smooth Streaming with Windows Azure Blobs and CDN

by Steve Marx via blog.smarx.com - cloud development blog on 7/29/2010 10:22:40 PM

In this post, I’ll show you how to use Windows Azure Blobs and the Windows Azure CDN to deliver Smooth Streaming video content to your users. For those who just want to try it out, head over to the Smooth Streaming with Windows Azure Blobs Uploader project on Code Gallery. The instructions there will get you going. Understanding Smooth Streaming Before we get into the details of how Smooth Streaming works on top of Windows Azure Blobs, it’s necessary to understand what Smooth Streaming actuall ...

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Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Arzeda Corp.

by WindowsAzure via Windows Azure on 7/29/2010 4:25:00 PM

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Alexandre Zanghellini, Cofounder at Arzeda, and Yih-En Andrew Ban, Project Leader and Scientist at Arzeda, about using the Windows Azure platform to power the company's compute-heavy enzyme-design process. Here's what they had to say: MSDN: Tell us more about Arzeda and the services you offer. Zanghellini: Arzeda is a biotechnology firm that engineers custom-made enzymes for almost any chemical reaction. By designing these biopro ...

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Programmatically Changing the Firewall Settings

by Wayne Walter Berry via SQL Azure Team Blog on 7/29/2010 4:03:34 PM

SQL Azure has two types of access control: SQL Authentication logins and passwords and a server side firewall that restricts access by IP address. This blog post will discuss how to programmatically modify the firewall settings. For information about programmatically creating logins, see this blog post. Firewall SQL Azure maintains a firewall for the SQL Azure servers, preventing anyone from connecting to your server if you do not give their client IP address access. The most common way to do ...

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Understanding the Procedure Cache on SQL Azure

by Wayne Walter Berry via SQL Azure Team Blog on 7/28/2010 3:00:51 PM

Both SQL Server and SQL Azure have a procedure cache which is used to improve the performance of queries on the server. This blog post will talk about how the procedure cache works on SQL Azure. SQL Azure has a pool of memory that is used to store both execution plans and data buffers. This pool of memory is used for all databases on the physical machine, regardless of owner of the database. Even though the pool is across all databases on the machine, no one can see execution plans that they do ...

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Improving Your I/O Performance

by Wayne Walter Berry via SQL Azure Team Blog on 7/27/2010 4:22:29 PM

As a DBA I have done a lot of work improving I/O performance for on-premise SQL Server installations. Usually it involves tweaking the storage system, balancing databases across RAID arrays, or expanding the count of files that the tempdb is using; these are all common techniques of SQL Server DBA. However, how do you improve your I/O performance when you are not in charge of the storage subsystem, like in the case of SQL Azure? You focus on how your queries use the I/O and improve the queries. ...

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Getting Started With Project Houston: Part 1

by Wayne Walter Berry via SQL Azure Team Blog on 7/26/2010 2:55:40 PM

Microsoft Project Code-Named “Houston” (Houston) is a light weight database management tool for SQL Azure. Houston can be used for basic database management tasks like authoring and executing queries, designing and editing a database schema, and editing table data. Currently, Houston is its first community technology preview (CTP), the instructions and screen shots shown in this blog post are from the CTP version of Houston. In this blog post I am going to show how to get started using Houston. ...

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

SQL Azure Supports Hierarchyid Data Type

by Wayne Walter Berry via SQL Azure Team Blog on 7/22/2010 7:46:32 PM

While this might seem like a non-announcement, the data type hierarchyid has just been added as a supported data type with SQL Azure Service Update 3, announced here. The hierarchyid data type is used to manage hierarchical data and tables that have a hierarchical structure. For example, employee manager relationships, and thread forum data. SQL Azure also supports the hierarchyid functions as of Service Update 3. This seems obvious; you need these functions to interact with the hierarchyid dat ...

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Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Johannes Schick, Chief Executive Officer, höltl Retail Solutions

by WindowsAzure via Windows Azure on 7/22/2010 3:24:00 PM

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Johannes Schick, CEO of höltl Retail Solutions, about using the Windows Azure platform to run the company's point-of-sale (POS) system. Here's what he had to say: MSDN: What service does höltl Retail Solutions provide? Schick: höltl Retail Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that offers innovative products for optimizing retail processes for the clothing and nonfood industries. The most popular of these is th ...

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

New Windows Azure Service, The Archivist, Helps you Export, Archive and Analyze Tweets

by WindowsAzure via Windows Azure on 7/20/2010 4:47:00 PM

Ever wonder what happens to tweets after they disappear?  Would you love a way to keep track of, analyze and even export tweets related to topics you care about?  Enter The Archivist, a new lab/website from Mix Online built on Windows Azure that allows you to monitor Twitter, archive tweets, data mine and export archives.    As Microsoft Developer and Archivist creator, Karsten Januszewski explains it, "When you start a search using The Archivist, it will create and monitor ...

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