Linux runs faster on Windows Azure than Amazon or Rackspace Openstack!
I recently reviewed a detailed comparison of the top 5 IaaS cloud providers and it listed Windows Azure as having…
An Unexpected Error Has Occurred
I was at a client with several semi-autonomous divisions and was working on enabling Free/Busy sharing between the Exchange installations…
BI Data Warehouse – ETL Dimension Types
When you are defining data warehouse dimensions, you need to ask yourself how changes to the information impact your fact…
SQL Server: Data Warehouse Indexing Strategy
Indexing strategies on data warehouses can be extremely light, depending on its usage. Most data warehouses are used solely to…
Monitoring Azure in Operations Manager 2012 using the Azure Fabric (preview) management pack (#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #Azure)
This is the third part of the series introduced at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2013/07/01/monitoring-and-windows-azure-scom-sysctr-azure.aspx (sorry this took so long, this was a big…
SQL Server: Enabling Remote Connections
So I have successfully installed SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012, and I am ready to play. Only I…
August Office 365 International User Group Meeting Scheduled
The next meeting of the Office 365 International User Group is scheduled for 2pm Denver, CO time on August 28th!…
SQL Server: Enabling Alerts and Notifications
Enabling alerts and notifications in SQL Server can be very useful, especially when you use the SQL Agent jobs functionality.…
New Features and Functionality for Office 365 and other Info
This post will highlight some of the new features and functionality that has been recently introduced for Office 365. Message…
SQL Server: NO CURSORS! Even when you absolutely need one.
Let’s face it. We love SQL cursors. At least I do. At least I USED to. Until I started to…