SQLAuthority News – Sharding or No Sharding of Database – Working on my Weekend Project

Recently I came across situation where database sharding was once again a suggested solution by architectures. Everytime I hear the word sharding I remember my earlier article about NuoDB on Shard No More – An Innovative Look at Distributed Peer-to-peer SQL Database. Sharding requires developers to think about things like rollbacks, constraints,…
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SQL SERVER – Azure SQL Databases Backup Made Easy with SQLBackupAndFTP

Azure SQL database backup used to be a difficult task. Not any more. With SQLBackupAndFTP with Azure it became trivial. Here’s what you basically need to do: Once  SQLBackupAndFTP with Azure  is installed, click at “Connect to SQL Server / Azure” button and specify connection properties for your Azure SQL Databases:…
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SQLAuthority News – Presenting 3 Technical Sessions at Great Indian Developer Summit – May 7, 2013 – Bangalore

I will be presenting once again 3 Technical Sessions on SQL Server and Performance Tuning at Great Indian Developer Summit on May 7, 2013. If you are going to attend the event, you do not want to miss the technical sessions at any cost. Here is the generic theme for…
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