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On Thursday this week Jamie Thomson (of SSIS Junkie fame) and I will be presenting at the London SQL Server User Group which will be held at Microsoft’s offices in Cardinal Place and you can still register for the event online.  The pre-planned topic is ‘SQL Server in the Cloud’ and JRJ, who normally organizes the event, is out of town – so ...

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 not going to be offering SDS with the EAV tables any more? I think I know what the ...

With direct access to relational databases being marginalised we need to question the next evolution of ORMs.  Now our architectures have to be more considerate of other ways accessing data as relational models hide behind services, sit on the cloud or are even replaced with non-relational storage. I have been involved in, and a spectator ...

There have been some snippets of information trickling out of the Microsoft PDC this evening about SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Namely: That’s not its name anymore. Its now called SQL Data Services (SDS) SDS is the data layer in Windows Azure You can now do joins between different entities. Just by the very nature of cloud services ...

I mentioned yesterday in my blog entry Are database pros relevant on the RESTful web? that I’d be doing more blogging related to cloud computing and here is the first one. it regards SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). I’ve been using SSDS for a few months and during that time I’ve managed to create a lot of junk up in that there cloud….I’ve ...

Last Friday at Conchango’s latest community day (something we have every 6 weeks where all of our 250 consultants down tools and get together back at base) I ran a cloud computing demo where I showed off some of the capabilities of SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). The demo used a .Net console application to create a new SSDS Authority (i.e. a ...

I recently got accepted onto the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) beta program and have been getting to grips with the how, what and why of the service. For those that don't know SSDS is a cloud computing platform from Microsoft that allows us to store data in the cloud rather than host it on our own database servers. The data is ...

I have been keeping a close eye on machinations in the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) arena and whilst the product hasn't reached the masses yet (I'm still waiting for my beta invite - hint hint) there is a still a lot of activity going on. There is a very active blog called The Long Term Storecast ...

SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) and Live Mesh are the two technologies that are uppermost in my mind at the moment. [My thoughts on SSDS are here and on Live Mesh here.] Hence then it didn't take me long to start wondering about the value of the two of them being integrated together. SSDS is a data storage platform and Live Mesh is a data ...

From Amazon SimpleDB documentation: Eventual Consistency Amazon SimpleDB keeps multiple copies of each domain. When data is written or updated [...] and Success is returned, all copies of the data are updated. However, it takes time for the update to propagate to all storage locations. The data will eventually be consistent, ...