Last week I published two posts that had people wondering why I was so anti-Oracle. I’m not anti-Oracle. I am, however, against poor “research” that ends up in marketing materials. And I also believe that Oracle needs to shift their focus a bit in the near future otherwise it may find itself left behind by … Read more
Since I have been railing on SQL Azure lately, I thought I could share with you some of the videos you can watch for free over at MSDN. In case you were not aware, there is a LOT of free content over at MSDN and I am trying to utilize it more and more these … Read more
Today I had the need to find tables in a database that did not have a clustered index defined. Why would I have such a need? That’s a great question. Anyway, I set about with a few basic questions for myself such as “Self, how many tables are there?” So I did what I normally … Read more
I took part in a one day conference today on cloud computing. It took place at the Harvard Club in Boston, which was an interesting choice to have the event. I had never been to the Harvard Club before, and I enjoyed the history displayed all around me. I did not wear a coat and … Read more
When the Cloud breaks, who fixes it?
Something smells rotten in Denmark (it’s probably all that cheese). This past weekend I started thinking about what it really means to have your databases hosted in the cloud. My first thought was that it struck me as being exactly the same as an Application Service Provider. I mean, MS SQL is an application, right? And … Read more
