Tomorrow I will be presenting at the first ever Hartford SQL Server Users Group. The title of the talk is Cloud Computing with SQL Azure, but only because I couldn’t pull together my first choice which was “Dora the Cloud Explorer”. Sorry, but I ran out of time on that because I’ve been a little … 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?
I often hear people use the terms “Data Mining” and “Data Analysis” as if they are interchangeable. To me, at least, they mean two very distinct things. Hopefully this post will help to explain what I believe to be the difference in their meanings. So, let’s say you are opening up a mine. First things … Read more
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
