After blogging about SSDS I saw that people are wondering what Microsoft's Cloud Storage offering is all about. One reader asked... Is it Windows Live Sky Drive? Is it Astoria? The answer is no... It's neither of the two above although it does have some...

For those who have been following Microsoft’s S+S message you may be excited to hear about SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) which was announced at the MIX08 Keynote today. So what is this new cloud storage offering by Microsoft anyway? Microsoft hosted...

Roger and I have been delivering a demo which highlights Spatial and FILESTREAM features of SQL Server 2008. One of the common things we've heard from developers is... For years we've been told that large binary files should never be stored in the database...

Wow... It's been a long time coming. I promised that I would explain in more detail how to write FILESTREAM data to SQL Server 2008. This is the second article in a series and uses the sample published on the SQL Server Community Samples site on CodePlex...