As TechEd 2010 winds down many of the videos from the conference are beginning to get posted.  I’ve listed some of the ones my fellow teammates have done this time around.  I’d encourage anyway interested in the service to have a look. Migrating...

I don’t normally blog about things which don’t deal directly with SQL Azure but the No SQL movement seems to have become hotter than normal these days in particular after Digg’s announced move to Cassandra a couple of weeks ago.  I saw a blog entry...

Just a heads up to any of you who were unable to attend MIX this year.  The session video’s are now online and available for viewing.  You can find these here .  Enjoy!

So, this post will really serve two purposes.  The first is to serve as a shameless plug for the some of the sessions coming up this week in Las Vegas for SQL Azure.  My friend and colleague David Robinson will be in town giving what I can only...

Hey all, During PDC09 we spent a bunch of time handing a survey for folks to fill out to give feedback to the team.  I would really encourage you to fill this out.  If there’s a data type that you’d like to see supported, feature enabled, enhancement...

Hey all, My, "SQL Azure: Under the hood" talk is available for viewing now here . During the talk, I referred to GopalK's earlier under the hood talk in mine so I've attached a link to this here for those that are interested. You can also find some...

I'm here in LA this week for PDC along with a bunch of other SQL Azure folks. If you're interested in chatting, asking a question, etc have a swing by our both in the partner area and ask away! Additionally, and this is a shamelss plug, but I'll be...

So, a number of us are doing talks this year for PDC ( myself included !). You can find the full list here . So, if you're going to be in LA for PDC this be sure to check out the sessions. Having seen, and helped author, the content I know you'll enjoy...

Quite a few folks have been asking recently about the limits we have in SQL Azure and I thought I would take some time to chat about this here.  The question varies of course by the person asking but the question inevitably goes something the following...

We've sent out the first couple batches of invite codes this week for SQL Azure (apologies if you haven't yet received yours). It's important to keep in mind that in general services tend to do this kind of thing for good reason. So, what are the reasons...

I've been rather silent here for sometime. This is primarily due to the fact that the whole dev team for SQL Azure (SADB not SAD by the way) has been really pushing hard to make our deliverables for PDC this year. As has been explained previously, we...

Hey, check out a new video of Nigel and Zach chatting about some of the changes that we're in the process of making to SDS .

In my previous blog entry I mentioned that I would post some Java & JDBC examples for connecting to and interacting with the SDS service. Since that post (roughly an hour ago) I’ve been called a, “slacker” by David Robinson one of the PM’s on the...

So, as I did with the original SDS I want to outline some code examples that other developers can use to get a sense of how to interact with the service. In general, this will be much easier now that we have shifted more to the relational model as some...

Looks like the MIX folks have posted up Nigel's talk on the newly revamped SDS from MIX. You can watch it now here .

So, it’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted but with the recent SDS announcement I trust you now know why that is.  While I’ll be posting some code samples shortly for accessing the new SDS service via ADO.NET as well as with Java I’d like to give...

A little while ago Jason and I recorded a Channel 9 video to discuss some of the newer features in SDS (SQL Data Services). Now that all the Azure components have been announced this is now available up at the Channel 9 site. You can view it here .

Jason and I just finished recording a session on some of the new features of the services that will be announced at PDC next week (along with some others such as Blobs).  Keep in eye out for it.  I think you'll enjoy it! --Jeff--

This is a non-SSDS related posting today :-)  I did the Tour De Peaks today with my wife and Stan another member of the SSDS team.  It was a great ride, though it didn't start off the way.  After a brief stint of rain and wind the weather...

Since the rollout I've seen at least one or two messages regarding the altered responses we're now sending with the REST head of the service.  There are several reasons why we've changed the service to now not return the entity body back to you again...

We completed the latest upgrade to the service yesterday afternoon. Listed below is the notification that went out along with a brief discussion of what we've added. SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) Maintenance Status: Complete We have completed upgrading...

Hey all, If you have a subscription to MSDN magazine, heck even if you don't, you read a bit more about using SSDS in the latest issue. If you don't have a subscription then you can still read the article on-line here . Enjoy!

In my last post I described how ETag's can be used in the upcoming sprint 3 version of SSDS. In this post I'd like to talk about how this same functionality is exposed through our SOAP service head. In many ways designing this particular feature for...

I've been kind of quiet the last month or so but that's because I've been totally heads down implementing some major features for this sprint in SSDS.  Our next release to production, which should be in the next few weeks,  is coming up fast...