Posted by Alin Irimie
on September 09, 2009
SQL Azure Migration Wizard helps you migrate your local SQL Server 2005 / 2008 databases into SQL Azure. The wizard walks you through the selection of your SQL objects, creates SQL scripts suitable for SQL Azure, and allows you to edit / deploy to SQL Azure.
The SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) will let you identify a SQL Server 2005 / 2008 database that you want to migrate to SQL Azure or select an existing SQL file that has the commands you want to execute against SQL Azure.
If your source is a SQL Server database, SQLAzureMW will walk you through the different object types (i.e. Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, etc.) and let you decide which ones you want analyzed / scripted. You will be given two options: Continue reading…
Posted by Alin Irimie
on May 21, 2009
Microsoft is set to deliver Windows Azure to the public by the end of this year, with an imminent announcement at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles on November 17, 2009.
When Steve Ballmer mentioned this February that Windows Azure “will reach fruition with the PDC this year” I didn’t really believed it, considering where the product was and how much we knew about the progress Microsoft was making on delivering Windows Azure and related services. Even TechEd this year was surprisingly quiet about Windows Azure, but this is just the silence before the storm. Microsoft is revving up the software development and marketing machine so at this year’s PDC cloud computing and Windows Azure will take again center stage.
Starting this summer with the 2009 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), New Orleans, July 13-16, we will see more and more announcements about Windows Azure. So what to expect in the next months? Continue reading…
Posted by Alin Irimie
on November 12, 2008
In the struggle to keep up with the new technologies, Microsoft realized that REST becomes more and more popular, so they’re trying to add REST support in all web technologies they offer. If you missed the news at PDC (not hard to, we’ve got our years full of new buzz words), Microsoft added REST support to WCF. The REST Starter Kit is a preview of features that are being considered for WCF 4.0, released early on CodePlex so you can download it, look at the code, play with it, and give feedback to Microsoft so they will deliver the right REST features in WCF 4.0. You can find everything you need to learn about RESTful WCF at http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/wcf/rest. It has links to download the Starter Kit from CodePlex, a white paper and series of screencasts on using the Starter Kit, overview documentation, release notes, and even hands on labs.
