Windows Azure Service Dashboard – Checkout the health of Azure Services

Windows Azure Service Dashboard is an excellent way to know the health/availability of your Windows Azure Services.

You might always want...

High Availability within Windows Azure VMs – An exciting opportunity !

Windows Azure Virtual Machines is a real game changer as it gives us ability to spin up VMs in no...

Backup your Windows Azure SQL Databases – Yes,you should !

Care about RPO’s and RTO’s?  Then you should be backing up your Windows AzureSQL Databases(Formerly SQLAzure).

Windows Azure SQL Database is...

Deleting a Storage Account from Windows Azure – The right way !

I like to clean up things after I’m done with my testing and this morning I decided to clean up...

Monitoring Memory Usage of Memory Optimized Objects – SQL Server 2014

Starting SQL 2014 monitoring memory usage of the memory optimized objects is super important to ensure that your instance don’t...

Checkout SQL Server 2014 CTP1 and Windows 2012 R2 preview up in the cloud

You must be really busy spinning up VMs to test SQL Server 2014 CTP1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 preview.
If...

Installing SQL Server 2014 CTP1 – Step by Step

Great news !!! SQL Server 2014 CTP1 is out and the wait is over. Drop everything(Except the databases !) and download your...

Moving a database from on-premise to the cloud – Step by Step Walkthrough

Cloud is the future and moving there is now as easy as few mouse clicks.
Today we will see how an...

Have you configured Database Mail to utilize multiple SMTP Accounts ?

Lets start discussing about this subject by closely looking at the term Redundancy.  What is redundancy all about ?
Wikipedia defines redundancy as “In engineering, redundancy is the...

Windows Azure pay per minute – Time is money !

One of the most exciting news which got announced yesterday was related to Windows Azure. When Scott Guthrie mentioned that billing...