[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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
