June, 2012

Federations have been available for 6 months in SQL Azure (now called Windows Azure SQL Database) as of today! In this post, I’ll first cover few of the improvements we have made to the SQL Database Federations and talk about a few of the announcement...

I truly hate watching myself on the screen but this is for a good cause . We tell the story of the product through the documentation, blogs, tweets and more but we don’t spend enough time to tell you much about how we get there, unless you personally...

Finally made it to Orlando this morning. 11K attendees form 90 countries are also here… Amazing! I delivered a session this year on best practices for Federations. I covered both the design time and admin tips and tricks that made easier for everyone...

Moving schema with federation is still a manual process today, however with SQL Server 2012 tools you can move data between federation in separate servers. One easy way to move data is to use the Import and Export Data Wizard. IEDW does not natively understand...