It’s the night before Valentine’s Day and I know what you are thinking: “What would Tim Berners-Lee be doing right about now?”
I’ll tell you what he is doing. He is linking data. After all, that is what drove him to create HTML over 20 years ago. No, he didn’t invent the web. He wasn’t the [...]
Cloud Computing
The Santa Cruz Experiment: Why You Should Care About Big Data
[This was first posted to Technorati on February 6th, 2012. You can read the original here.]
I keep hearing the term “Big Data”. My old-school IT instincts always makes me think of inefficiently storing two-letter state abbreviation codes inside of an nvarchar(50) field because that’s the default data type you get when creating a database table from [...]
12 Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012
It’s the end of the year and already I am seeing the usual blog posts that either reflect on the year that was, or are pondering the year to come. I thought about writing another post covering all of the things that didn’t happen to me this past year but since I’ve already done that [...]
SQL Azure Billing
Had a quick chat with Buck today regarding a recent bill (for $1.38 USD) for my Azure subscription.
If you are using Azure for testing (like me), and you want to minimize your chances of being billed, then just drop the user databases you have created. You don’t need to drop your Azure subscription, so please [...]
Virtualization Thoughts
I decided to drive over to Waltham tonight to listen to Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) talk out of his ass about virtualization. The place was packed and @BrentO put on a good show, as expected. He gave us the four hour slide deck but condensed it down to about 60 minutes.
I chatted with Brent [...]
Canceling a SQL Azure Account
or…not…
I wanted to cancel my account before I got hit up for “hidden charges” or something ridonkulous like that and could not find any way to cancel my subscription short of calling someone on the phone which could be my least favorite thing to do.
From what I could tell, I should be allowed to “opt-out” [...]