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Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server offers cloud instances of SQL Server. Amazon’s offering even supports “License Mobility”, Microsoft jargon that lets volume licensing customers use an existing SQL Server license for an Amazon’s instance. But how does Amazon’s cloud SQL Server compare with Microsoft’s own offering, SQL Database running on Azure? Peter Marriott has …continue reading Microsoft SQL Azure versus SQL Server on Amazon AWS I am impressed with the new Windows Azure platform, but when I moved a simple app from my local machine to Azure I had some hassle copying the SQL Server database. The good news is that you can connect to SQL Azure using SQL Server Management studio. You need to do two things. First, check …continue reading Moving a database from on-premise SQL Server to SQL Azure: some hassle Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012 is released next month and available to download now (I am not sure what the distinction is). I have a high regard for Microsoft’s database server; it seems to me that the team mostly gets it right. The product has become somewhat diffuse though, especially as the Business Intelligence aspect has …continue reading What’s new in SQL Server 2012? Microsoft is launching SQL Server 2012 on March 7th 2012. In Microsoft’s world “launches” do not always coincide with the availability of release code, which may come before or after, but they are usually not far apart. The big news in SQL Server 2012 is in new BI (Business Intelligence) features and the ability to …continue reading Microsoft LocalDB: another option for local databases I’ve been testing the new Community Tech Preview of SQL Server 2011, codenamed “Denali”. Here is an intriguing feature. You can now create a new kind of table called a FileTable. A FileTable is mapped to a folder on the filesystem, though you are not meant to access it directly once it is managed by …continue reading SQL Server 2011 Denali publishes tables as Windows network folders The Guardian’s Mat Wall has spoken here at Qcon London about why it is migrating its web site away from Oracle and towards MongoDB. He also said there are moves towards cloud hosting, I think on Amazon’s hosted infrastructure, and that its own data centre can be used as a backup in case of cloud …continue reading Guardian.co.uk enthuses about MongoDB, plans to ditch Oracle Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, accompanied by Nokia’s Stephen Elop, showed coming updates for Windows Phone 7 at a Mobile World Congress keynote last night. A minor update due in early March will add copy and paste, and CDMA support is also coming in the first half of 2011. The more interesting update is planned for …continue reading IE9 in Windows Phone will be good for cross-platform JavaScript and HTML5 apps Today was cloud day at PDC. Microsoft announced that Windows Azure will become a production platform on January 1st, with billing starting from February 1st. It also announced the beta of Windows Server AppFabric role, for on-premise apps that can either stay on-premise or be deployed to Azure later; and some new developments like the …continue reading PDC day one: Windows in the cloud Amazon has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service: Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, …continue reading MySQL comes to Amazon’s cloud. Anyone for Quadruple Extra Large? |
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