The SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) team announced today the availability of the migration assistant for MySQL! (Yes, it supports SQL Server Express.) You can… Read the team’s announcement here: Microsoft Announces SQL Server...

One of the interesting incubation projects that the SQL Azure team is working on is the SQL Azure OData Service. If that sentence makes no sense to you, then start by reading this short overview on the SQL Azure team blog: Introduction to Open Data Protocol...

Today, the SQL Server Driver for PHP team released the production-ready 2.0 versions of the SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers for SQL Server. You can… Read the official announcement on the SQL Server Driver for PHP team blog here: Microsoft Drivers...

I recently found out that I was chosen to be on the judging panel for the My App is Better Challenge . I must say I’m honored and excited, but I also feel somewhat intimidated. Just look at the rest of the judging panel: Mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka...

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time recently trying to wrap my head around the access control functionality in the Windows Azure platform AppFabric, so you’ll find a couple of related links in this week’s list. You’ll also find...

In a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, Consuming SQL Azure Data with the OData SDK for PHP , I didn’t address how to protect SQL Azure OData feeds with the Windows Azure AppFabric access control service because, quite frankly, I didn’t understand...

With the recent production-ready release of the MS Drivers for SQL Server for PHP , the team is now completely focused on building the next version. To do that, they really need your input. The team would really appreciate your taking 10 minutes to fill...

In my last post I used some bare-bones PHP code to explain how the Windows Azure AppFabric access control service works. Here, I’ll build on the ideas in that post to explain how to use some of the access control functionality that is available...

The dog days of summer are here. Seems like things are a bit slow lately…I only have a few links to share, in any case. But share I will…the lack of quantity does not impact their quality… The comments add a lot of information...

[See this post for information about the final, stable release of version 1.0 of the PHP Manager for IIS: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brian_swan/archive/2010/09/30/php-manager-for-iis-7-released.aspx .] Some time back I wrote a post about how to run multiple...