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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:27 PM

Please update your RSS reader as my blog URL has changed!

When I started at Microsoft a couple years ago I decided to give MSDN blogs a try. Recently I decided to switch back to my own domain for my blog at http://www.ZachSkylesOwens.net . For the few of you out there that may have my MSDN blog in an RSS reader,
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:38 AM

USE <database> statement is NOT supported in SQL Azure CTP1

So, now that you've got a token and can connect to SQL Azure , you probably want to create a database and start. >> Read More .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace;
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:38 AM

SQL Azure Invitation Codes

Now that CTP1 is out the door a question that keeps coming up is. "I registered for a token a couple months ago. When am I going to. >> Read More
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:09 AM

Connecting to SQL Azure

So, now that SQL Azure CTP1 has been released there are a few things that most people will probably run into when trying to connect to SQL Azure with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), SQLCMD and OSQL. >> Read More
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:52 AM

SQL Azure CTP1 is finally here!

It's a really exciting day for everyone involved in SQL Azure as today we've announced that CTP1 is available to customers. Over the next couple of weeks everyone who has already requested an Invitation Code should. >> Read More
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:56 PM

SQL Azure Documentation is Live!

As the SQL Azure CTP comes closer we've released the documentation which can be found. Read More >>
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:05 AM

SSDS -> SDS -> SQL Azure

I was listening to an awesome speaker yesterday who said. "Apparently, names have betas too." which I think was a great way to put it. A couple of weeks ago at WPC we announced. Read More >>
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Monday, June 08, 2009 3:24 PM

Details on TSQL Support in SQL Data Services - Coming Soon!

Stayed tuned. Within the next week or so the SDS team will be publishing more details on what TSQL features. Read More >>
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:42 AM

Interview with Nigel Ellis from SDS

Nigel is one of the coolest technical people I know when it comes to having great conversations about technology. I had the opportunity to. Read More >>
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:06 PM

SDS is now a Killer Database in the Cloud

I've been working on SQL Server and SQL Data Services evangelism for the past year and half. There was a period of time when SDS didn't look much like SQL Server so telling the story of how SDS fit into the Microsoft Data Platform was much more difficult.
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Monday, February 09, 2009 5:05 PM

PHP 5.3 on Windows and the SQL Server PHP Driver v1.0 are NOT Compatible

We are really excited about the progress of PHP 5.3 release. This is a milestone release for PHP on Windows as libraries are being brought up to date, PHP Core developers can use the Visual Studio 9 compiler and performance will be greatly improved. Unfortunately,
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Monday, February 09, 2009 3:15 PM

SQL Server Driver for PHP Requires the SQL Server 2005 ODBC Driver

I was banging my head against a wall for a while today trying to track down a issue that wasn't letting my PHP 5.2.8 app do a basic connection to SQL Server 2008. I kept getting the following error. SQLSTATE: IM002 message: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager]
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:25 PM

Back to My Roots

It's been a while since my last post and this one isn't going to be able FileStream API's, SQL Data Services or other SQL Server features... Continue reading at your own risk :) I started off my software career working as a Partner in a small web-application
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:31 AM

TechEd 2008 Developers – A Mi Gente de Southworks (ES)

By Zach Skyles Owens (Perdona mi español) Acabo de escribir como la dedicación del equipo de desarrollo fue el clave a nuestro éxito. Aparte de los ingenieros a Microsoft trabajamos con Southworks que es un grupo de gente muy apasionante de su trabajo
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:10 AM

TechEd 2008 Developers - Shout Out to Dev Team

By Zach Skyles Owens There were a lot of people involved with pulling together the Data Platform Demo for the TechEd Keynote. I want to take a minute to quickly thank the Southworks team who's dedication really made the difference. Special thanks to Tim
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