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• UK Azure Net user group

  As I write I’m on my way home from the inaugural meeting of the UK Azure Net user group at Microsoft’s London offices. Speaker for the evening was Senior Director of Evangelism (or some similar poncy title) for Azure, James Conard, who did a good demo-heavy Read More... Posted 31 March 2009 22:15 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: SDS, SQL Data Services, Azure Services Platform, Live Framework, azure, SQL Azure

• Gearing up for MIX

  I am writing this blog entry from the Venetian hotel breakfast hall in Las Vegas where I've come to attend the MIX09 conference . "What’s a fella that is into SQL Server and data stuff doing at a web developer conference?” I hear you ask. Well, its Read More... Posted 18 March 2009 15:44 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: SDS, SQL Data Services, Azure Services Platform, mix09, mix, azure

• SQL Data Services and Entity-Attribute-Value models

  I just came across an interview with Senior Product Manager for SQL Data Services (SDS), Niraj Nagrani at http://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/weblog.aspx?blog=3577 . The interviewer asked a question that I think could be misconstrued: Are you basically Read More... Posted 12 March 2009 22:10 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, SDS, SQL Data Services, azure, SQL Azure

• SDS goes full circle

  When SQL Data Services (SDS) was first announced it was called SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) before they later changed the name. Judging by today’s announcement in blog entry The no spin details on the new SDS features on the SSDS blog they might have Read More... Posted 10 March 2009 22:00 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: Astoria, REST, SDS, SQL Data Services, Azure Services Platform, azure, SQL Azure

• Some clues as to SDS’s future

  News about SQL Data Services has been thin on the ground since the Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) in October 2008. The official SDS blog has been dormant since 27th October (up until then it had been a very active blog) and the same is largely Read More... Posted 24 February 2009 12:47 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005, SDS, SQL Data Services, Azure Services Platform, azure, SQL Azure

• Open Space Coding – Using the SSDS REST Library

  January 2009 seems to have been a good month for inaugural events and naturally the most important one was the inaugural Open Space Coding day on 31st January as arranged by Mr Alan Dean and hosted by Michelle Flynn of EMC Conchango. I was lucky enough Read More... Posted 01 February 2009 12:25 by jamie.thomson | 7 Comments Filed under: SDS, SQL Data Services, .Net, Open Space Code, azure, SQL Azure

• The perils of staticly-typed languages and schema-less data stores

  Many moons ago I wrote a blog entry MDM -> Entity Framework -> ADO.Net Data Services. Better together? where I opined about the inherent problems of using staticly-typed programming languages (such as C#) to interact with schema-less data stores. Read More... Posted 14 January 2009 19:35 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: cloud computing, powershell, SDS, SQL Data Services, Azure Services Platform, sds-sh

• Cerebrata release Omega.SDSClient built in Silverlight : SDS

  You may have noticed of late that I'm spending quite a lot of time talking about and exploring SQL Data Services (SDS); today that work got a lot easier with Cerebrata's release of their "Omega" client for SDS. I've never heard of these guys before but Read More... Posted 08 January 2009 11:34 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: SDS, SQL Data Services, azure, SQL Azure

• What’s the difference between SQL Data Services (SDS) and Azure tables?

  I’ve seen many people on the web enquiring as to the difference between Azure table storage and SQL Data Services (SDS). Its a fair question, both appear in the ubiquitous Azure Services Platform slide: [N.B. Azure table store is part of “Windows Azure” Read More... Posted 12 December 2008 09:51 by jamie.thomson | 4 Comments Filed under: SDS, SQL Data Services, Azure Services Platform, windows azure, azure, SQL Azure

• SDS Shell v0.2 : SQL Data Services

  A month ago to the day I wrote Announcing SDS Shell – Managing SDS from Powershell where I first talked of SDS Shell, a Powershell Snapin for interacting with SQL Data Services (SDS). Since then the SDS REST head has moved to a new root at https://data.database.windows.net/ Read More... Posted 27 November 2008 23:36 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: powershell, SDS, Azure Services Platform, sds-sh, azure, SQL Azure