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Microsoft SQL Azure FAQ
I was searching for news on Microsoft SQL Azure when I cam across this new FAQ. It answers a lot of the questions you may have, and several that I hadn't
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What is SQL Azure?
I've been getting this question or some variant of it for weeks now. Some people are confusing SQL Azure with SQL 2008 R2, and some are thinking it's SQL 2010.
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SugarCRM Announces SQL Azure Support
After the efforts Microsoft has put into supporting PHP, a major PHP development company has announced they are going to begin supporting Azure. This support,
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How Will Cloud Computing Affect You?
With all this talk about Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Amazon services and moving to the cloud, I start thinking to myself this all sounds somewhat familiar. Not
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Microsoft Continues to Support PHP
Microsoft continued their support of PHP by releasing a Community Technology Preview for the SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0. With this release PHP developer can
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Equals Sub Queries Versus Exists Sub Queries
I'd like to introduce you to the idea that you can replace an equal sub query with an exists sub query. Doing this can change a seek operation to a scan
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Microsoft SQL Reporting Services for PHP
In an outstanding move on Microsoft's part, Developers have released an open-source project to help PHP developers integrate SQL Server Reporting Services from
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Azure Tables or SQL Azure?
I'm beginning to see questions come up over which should I use, SQL Azure or Azure Table Services? The answer for now seems to be, it depends. Azure
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I’m now answering questions at dbforums.com!
Now there are two ways to ask me your SQL questions! I'll be reviewing posts on this site Monday through Fridays. I check twice a day, the first is before 0800
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I’ve Been Published!
I just received word that my SUBSTRING article was approved at experts-exchange. This is awesome news! I'm hoping to get all my past articles published on
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I’m a Qualified Expert!
After a week of contributing to Experts Exchange, I've reached the first level. This is an honor! I'm glad I get to help people with their SQL questions. I look
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Sorting Numbers in VarChar field
Over at Experts-Exchange, I saw a question I get every once in a while. It all has to do with how SQL Server orders data in a VARCHAR column. SQL Server