Write Ahead Blog

It has been a week since I posted BrokerChallenge 0 and I am quite happy to see several people successfully cracked it. Still others gave it a shot but were not completely successful. So I decided to post the solution to the challenge. You can get the...

Over the past week I have been planning to launch the first open to public Service Broker. At the same time, my dev team was having a discussion regarding how we can do something cool and interesting to get the community involved in our product. So I...

Where do relational databases systems fit to provide reliability, scalability and resilience to loosely-coupled world of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Fueled by XML, CLR hosting, integration with Visual Studio 2005, native web-services, asynchronous...

[Attachment: ShippingRowsets.zip ] While there are technologies such as log shipping, SQL Server Replication Service and database mirroring available for various scenarios that require maintaining a copy of the data in a secondary source, several customers...